"Some Minister, Master, said that the drug problem was becoming comparable to the Plague. What Nonsense!"
"All right, tell me why it is such nonsense, Ling."
"But Master, the Plague was a contagious disease and not very selective, while drug use is highly selective for the weak minded, and not contagious itself, although the habit may be socially contagious. One can not be free not to be infected, but one IS free not to ape the suicidal habits of mental-cripples."
"You are wholly correct. The comparison is not valid in any
Way. The twit only took numbers or percentages in consideration,
not the problem-typical dimensions. That is statistics, Ling,
that looks scientific. I for one, am in favour of letting drug
users go their Way, pass away. That is the selectivity for you.
It, then, only picks out the weak-minded. Yet, sorry to say, it
does not seem to solve the planet's problem, the thousandfold
overpopulation. Even the Plague took-off not more than halves or
quarts, not 999 pro-mille."