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The Idea of Self control implies you stay away from what is harmful and illegal, it is hypocritical to give into peer pressure and calling it self control when you're high but not 'too high', it hypocritical when you say "I'm having a stressful day I think I'm going to go shove cocaine up my nose, or smoke some pot", or when you know you should and it is illegal but you do. I fail to see your reasoning behind this. That is not self control when you do drugs every month, or every week, or even every year. It is the opposite, you give into you desire. That, my friend, is not self control.
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First of all, I already called drugs and alcohol a form of self-indulgence. Self-indulgence in
any respect, whether it be food, sweets, porn, whatever, shows
some lack of self-control, so as I said I'm not too offended if you're implying it. However, I feel it also takes self-control not to let it get out of hand. Sure it might not be dominating willpower, but at least it's being smart about it (and yes, smart
about it. There is such a thing). I don't find it hypocritical at all to admit a certain lack of self-control, I'm just saying one
needs it not to get out of control.
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I disagree, and Like I said, i can't speak for your parents. thats all I'll say.
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I know you disagree, and I respect that you disagree. I won't change your mind, I'm just trying to make you understand a bit more my take/view on the whole thing.
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I'm not saying China is drug free, and the young people do care, the young people are much like you and I.
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Yep. It's the same there as here, having two sides to the same argument. I suppose I didn't really mean they didn't
care, but they didn't seem particularly affected when they were offering me.
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I would not say my analysis is wrong, but wrong is merely your opinion.
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Odd, I don't seem to think so.
Just because you can't understand my logic doesn't make it wrong, and I'm trying to explain it but apparently I'm not articulate enough.
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yeah I know what you mean... these responses take forever to make. aside from everything else. What do your parents do? You obviously travel a lot, where do you go? and why do you travel too much?...just curious :P
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Oh, man... complicated story. I'm white, but my parents adopted me (they're Chinese). So I've been back and forth between China and the US (more time in the US), and we have friends and family who moved to the Philippines so I've been there twice. A while ago I got in touch with my birth parents, who stem from the Netherlands (they live in the US). So I've been there a bit, stayed with my grandparents, and have cousins all over western Europe (mostly the Netherlands and Germany). xD
Alex