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My Uncle started in high school, the 4th time he smoked he saw 'a wall fall down on him'.
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What exactly was he smoking? I'm sorry for your uncle and I, too, have friends who went down the same path. It's never easy watching someone close to you spiral out of control. But like I said,
moderation is the difference between people who can control themselves and those who get lost in drug use.
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Infinite truth has the right to feel what she (is that right? or are you a he...LOL) wants. If she is wrong to say she is superior, you are wrong to say she is wrong for calling herself superior.
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All right. So basically, (s)he can think she's superior and I can think (s)he's foolish for thinking so. According to your logic, we both have a right to our opinions and I don't see what the problem is.
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What is more so, drugs are against the law because for a reason, logical or not, your lack of restraint is reflected in this. You cannot control yourself to say 'no', positive people have been trying to engrave the fact that drugs are bad, but you are still 'un-smart' *cough* enough to say yes.
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Drugs aren't illegal to test people's willpower. I've lived in parts of the world where they
were legal, and over there they don't seem to think think drugs are bad in moderation. I guess the US is just so much smarter than the rest of the world (I'm
sure they would agree). I'm ready to admit a certain lack of restraint, but again, it's not an entirely new concept that people choose to self-indulge. Bringing back that stupid bacon cheeseburger analogy, everyone has a lack of restraint in some ways. Would you look down on overweight people for not being in shape? I mean, they've heard the dangers of diabetes and heart attacks just as often, if not
more often, than the effects of drugs. At this point, 66.6% of Americans are overweight. What's wrong with them, right? Maybe you should start a tirade about how they're lazy and un-smart, too. But chances are you won't, because there's no anti-fat-people mentality and it would just be plain rude. I'm only asking for the same courtesy of not being judged so quickly.
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oh well aren't you just a bada**. It shows your lack of individuality, and because it feels good make it right?
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Trust me, love. I'm the last person to proclaim what a bad--- I am, though I'm flattered you'd think so. I guess people who think drugs are bad are such individuals themselves, especially when they band together with the same arguments. Whether or not it's 'right' is a matter of opinion. I'm not trying to get anyone into it, nor do I affect people when I am. Most people are under the impression that drugs are done for no reason, when the reason is very simple, like every other vice:
they feel good.
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whether the drug was outlawed for practical proposes or not, the fact that you were weak enough to give into peer pressure and then put yourself into denial that its not that big of a deal.
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Oh, please. My parents am aware I do it from time to time, their only requirement is that I do it safely (yes, there
is such a thing). I mean, if you would rather support the parents who have that strict anti-drug mentality like you, then I guess you would rather kids do it under peer pressure in god-knows-where. Drugs don't take over my life. I'm going to a very good school next year, and in high school I've had good grades, good friends (most of them don't even do drugs/alcohol) and healthy hobbies. I guess if a few moments of self-indulgence make me weak, I'll take that label and move on to what I would still imagine to be a good life with a bright future.
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chances are that the drug was outlawed for a reason, and even if the dangers are exaggerated (which I do not doubt they are), the government has the best interest in us as the population and the nation's future at large.
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Yes, and I'm trying to say that sometimes laws are strange. And it's not even the
law that's bad, it's the mentality it's causing people to have. When I was in Berlin, the drinking age was 16 but nobody cared if you had alcohol at 14 or 15. Would you say their government was completely un-interested in Germany's future at large? No. They have a different way of running things, and it doesn't necessarily make it bad.
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but to lie and say it is not a big deal or it is ok in moderation, but also saying it is bad because, you, yourself are in denial would be misleading and hypocritical.
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Again, I don't see how it's misleading or hypocritical. I think my responses so far have been well-written and clear. I'll repeat: it's
not a big deal when done in moderation. When not done in moderation, it's bad. I don't see how this statement is flawed.
Alex