drug abuse Options

[ryfitaDF]

i've had it up to here with everyone thinking it's so cool to get "wasted" and "trashed" and all the terms ,that if you actually listen to them, are the most self-demeaning thing EVER! i invite any drug users to give me any reasons why they do it. any good reason at all.

[ComradeRed]

and if you say "it's their own business", i believe that if i care about them enough it becomes my business.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

If you really cared about other people, then you would recognize that all people have dignity and are competent to make their own choices. The most compassionate thing you can do for someone is to let them make their own choices.

This is why civilizations have long fought for liberty -- the right to do as you please. Not the right to improve your life, but the right to simply do what you want. This is why most religions say that God loved humankind so much, that he gave us FREE WILL -- even though that he knew it would create evil.

Forcing your preferences on others, even for the cause of love, is wrong. Forced love is rape. It is only through free will that we can truly achieve anything. And by forcing people to accept your preferences, you activate an innate desire within people to rebel, which leads to the opposite of what you wanted to achieve.

People aren't always logical. But we do all desire freedom, lest we be robots. And what is the point to living as robots? In other words, the only real "good" reason that people do drugs is simply to prove that, as humans, they OUGHT to have the right to do what they please with their own bodies. To wit:

"Man may consciously desire what is injurious to himself, what is stupid, simply in order to have the right to desire for himself even what is very stupid and not to be bound by an obligation to desire only what is sensible."
--Fyodor Dovstoyetski