LastTwo said:Superstar your statement about only blaming the user is so stupid I have to give you this analogy: A man catches the AIDS virus after having unprotected sex. The man later dies from the AIDS virus. It was the mains fault for catching the virus, and it was the virus that killed him. After he caught the AIDS virus, what happened to him after that was out of his control. You cannot blame him for the effects of the AIDS virus, only contracting it. Therefore it is someone's fault for trying an addictive drug, and when they do become addicted it is the same thing as a disease, because not only are they psychologically dependent on it, they become physically dependent, because their own chemical makeup has been changed to allow the drug to bond itself. When that bond is weakened, i.e. when they run out of the drug or havent taken any for a few hours, they experience withdrawal, which is a living hell, and they always have to go back to the drug.
Addiction is a disease, and SUPERSTAR, just because I understand the effects of the drug socially doesn't mean that's all I know about it. I am a full time college student and for the past four semesters I have taken Addiction Studies courses as part of my requirement for a job when I get my bachelors degree.
Your not wowing me with your smarts, by any means. College student or not.
Your analogy needs modification for what you say to have any merit.
IF, a man contracted HIV, and it was say....an HIV that only stayed in the body for 6 hours, and that man, when HIV ran out of his system, actively pursued getting his hands on some more HIV, to put back into his system. You then have something which can be compared to meth.
If that man who actively wanted to have HIV in his body eventually died, HE DESERVED IT, AND DID IT TO HIMSELF!
In todays time, people like to label everything a disease (even addiction), which makes it so much easier for people, in that they don't have to be responsible or accept any blame for their actions. Using that terminology lets them off the hook, which is a complete copout to me
No one takes meth one time, and their life goes down the toilet because of that one specific time. It takes lots of times. Times where they had to run out and get some more to take, and before they became complete burnedout junkies, they had a mind that they could make decisions with, that could have opted to NOT use meth again. but no, the user CHOSE to go get some meth, and THAT'S why his life was destroyed.
If the man contracted HIV during the time that nothing was known about it, and no one knew how it was transmitted, no one can blame him. If he was a modern day man, and we can assume that he knew all the risks involved, and he decided to take a shot and ended up with HIV, It's HIS fault. I have no mercy for him whatsoever.
If they had commercials on tv, where some super happy lady said..."TAKE SOME METH IN THE MORNING WITH YOUR MILK, AND YOU'LL HAVE A SPLENDID REFRESHING DAY! NOT ONLY DOES METH MAKE YOUR DAY BEAUTIFUL, BUT IT ALSO DOES WONDERS FOR YOUR COMPLEXION, TRY SOME METH TODAY!"(and they showed the average american family all taking meth at breakfast, and being happy) and someone got hooked as a result of that, yes, they were misled, and i would feel sorry for them.
BUt....there are no commercials like that, and i'm pretty sure that the majority of the world who knows about meth, knows that it is dangerous, and that you really shouldn't mess with it.
If there is some idiot that decided that he's the man, and he can handle it, and he ends up getting hooked. It's his fault.
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