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Readers Write: Heroin and America's spiritual void; Hypocrisy on Putin's Ukraine move

05/07/2014 1:48 pm ET Letters to the Editor for the May 5, 2014 weekly magazine: Consumerism and technology are constantly trying to convince us of the self-evident absurdity that we can 'have it all'. In truth, we not only can't have it all, we really don't want it! The look at heroin addiction in American suburbia brings attention to the paucity of spiritual control in our YOLO ('you only live once') society. If, to protect itself from potential threats, the US can justify invading countries near the Russian sphere of influence, how can the US deny Russia the same justification with Crimea?