Evidently, it also takes a village to raise a homosexual:
“We can’t allow the few to continue to carry on the fight for many,” he said. “As a community, we have to define that crystal is not acceptable for this community.”
So sayeth SF Supervisor Bevan Dufty, who seems to believe that drug abuse is a community decision rather than an individual one. It therefore follows that the community in question — rather than its individual members — bears the responsibility for its impact as well…
I beg to differ. I am homosexual. I do not use crystal meth, nor do I enjoy the company of people who do so. And I feel no particular sense of responsibility to random strangers who are suffering from drug addiction merely because we share a sexual orientation. Why should I?
This is not to say that I don’t feel any compassion toward my friends who have (or have had) problems with drugs, but my support is based on my individual relationships with them, and not on some contrived notion of “community”. Similarly, their behavioral changes were (or will be) based on individual decisions rather than on any “community mandate”…
Drug abuse is not a marketing problem…