Here is my latest piece at Huffington Post, “Drug Abuse and our Biased Compassion.” Visit here to take a read and please join the conversation on the site. Below is an excerpt.
I am not arguing that we should treat rich white men and their drug problems like we inhumanely treat the poor and people of color. I think it should be reverse. What we need is an unbiased compassion for all individuals. The same compassion, humane attitude, and value of life we as a society lend to rich white men on drugs, is the same we should extend to all addicts. Philosopher Schopenhauer argued that compassion is the real basis of morality. This fellow feeling is what defines our actions and lives as moral. But if compassion only extends to certain individuals and not to others, then what does that say about our own morality?