Social Priorities

If the unwritten rules of social justice dictate that we, as a civilized and humane society, must create an “Open-Door Policy” (editorial, Nov. 17) in an effort to help alleviate the plight of Orange County’s homeless population, shouldn’t the Board of Supervisors be placing a higher premium on the needs of these unfortunate people rather than on programs designed, in part, to provide bleach kits for recreational drug users (“County Endorses Bleach-Kit Grant,” Nov. 11), thereby encouraging and perpetuating their course of self-destruction?

I submit that they should.

GREG RHOTON

Orange