SIR — Helen Jones (Chronicle letters, May 14) writes that we should all be ashamed of the death of a man who overdosed on drugs and died in a public toilet. We should? Why?
Pardon me, but, who exactly sold him the drugs?
Who exactly made the choice to live that lifestyle?
Unless she knew the man, how would she know what reasons he had to be on drugs?
Is she aware that many start taking drugs for recreation and soon become hooked?
Sticking a dirty needle in your arm in a public toilet is a choice — it’s the difference between good and bad choices, and will.
To claim that the only difference between a junkie and any of us is luck is not only blatantly, obviously untrue, it’s highly insulting.
Speaking only for myself, I refuse to buy into that public guilt trip the lady wants to fit us all with.
Nowhere in her letter does she mention ‘personal responsibility.’ Jay Diamond Winchester.
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