<p>Do you consider anyone who drinks or has smoked pot a bad person? I’m just wondering, because what about those excellent students who are involved too but party every weekend?</p>
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<p>It’s not the worst thing if you’re not hooked and you do it habitually (like daily like 95% of my school lol)</p>
<p>But alcohol and smoking aren’t the best things to get hooked on… once you’re hooked you’re screwed</p>
<p>I have a really great friend in high school, but she smokes pot. 
I consider her a good person who makes bad decisions.</p>
<p>You can’t call someone who does that stuff a “bad person.” It’s all based on societal taboos; I’m sure many Europeans would think you’re weird if you didn’t drink.</p>
<p>EDIT: Ok, I didn’t really answer the question. I don’t find people who do that stuff bad. I choose to do it and I don’t see an issue with it as long as it’s in moderation.</p>
<p>I don’t think that people who smoke pot/drink are bad people as much as they are influenced/pressured by “bad” peers. I think it depends on environment more than anything. It is alarming when I hear about amazingly talented kids doing those things but I am reminded that a vast majority of people do and that it’s mainly a result of peers. I don’t associate a lot with smokers/drinkers and I don’t treat them differently, but it does influence my thoughts about the person.</p>
<p>I certainly don’t think by any means that it’s bad in the sense of morals to drink alcohol or smoke pot. They chose to take substances that give them pleasure, and it doesn’t reflect whether they are a basically good or basically bad person at all. </p>
<p>I would say, though, that underage drinking and illegal drugs are a bad choice to make in the sense that they will most likely end up hurting themselves, whether they get in trouble with the police, get dangerously addicted, or just have less time and energy to focus on schoolwork and other activities, not to mention the negative health effects.</p>
<p>So is it a bad choice to make? Yes. Does it make you a bad person? No.</p>
<p>I believe anybody who drinks or does any kinds of drugs is a terrible person. Sorry. I hate society. I’m going to have a hard time in college.</p>
<p>i don’t blame people for not being able to resist all the tempting but damaging things society offers them (soda, alchohol, cake, etc.). Some of us just don’t have a lot of willpower to resist for whatever understandable reasons. But the people who insist those things are “cool” or anything like that, or that those things are what life is all about, then I think they’re dumb and possibly bad. to me people are only bad when they harm the people around them.</p>
<p>Being from Minnesota. If you’re from Minnie, you’re the scourge of the Earth.</p>
<p>Why would lighting to relieve the stress of your tenacious study schedule make one a bad person? Everyone has a release, and that’s his or her way.</p>
<p>I do not endorse drug use or alcohol, but I think it is important to recognize that many of the people who use these substances and are addicted are themselves victims and we are not helping them by calling them bad people.</p>
<p>Samonuh, I’m curious, if drinking/doing drugs makes you a bad person, what about Europeans? Alcohol is a huge part of their culture, does that make them all bad people? Or are you just looking at it from a legal point of view?</p>
<p>I’m 99% percent sure he was kidding.</p>
<p>no ONE thing makes someone a good person or a bad person. so drinking and doing drugs doesn’t necessarily automatically make someone bad even though they’re bad things to do. and there’s also a spectrum. it’s not just bad or good</p>
<p>so no, I don’t think drinking or doing drugs = bad person</p>