The ‘Chemical War’ Killing 70,000 Americans Each Year
28th September 2024
No. Chemicals are not killing people. People are killing themselves (and occasionally others) by using chemicals in search of a utopia that doesn’t require any work. If it weren’t fentanyl, it would be heroin, or meth, or crack, or oxycontin, or whatever’s fashionable this week.
People make choices, and sometimes those choices are stupid. Think of it as evolution in action: Natural selection always acts to remove the weak and foolish, and there’s a point to that, to make sure that such do not reproduce. The modern ideology is that it’s the government’s job to save people from themselves (and the taxpayers’ job to pay for it), regardless of what those people themselves choose to do. Nature always wins, sooner or later.