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YAY! TODAY SUCKED!!!
danny_galaga:
someone how teef two just reminded me of another example i can pose. in some of the remote communities in australia there are high rates of unemployment and depression. how do the kids cope? some of them sniff petrol, or glue. as teef says, people will always do drugs. many in moderation, but people with problems will abuse. if something more suitable is not available then people will turn to some rather nasty alternatives. if you can't ever completely stop the flow of illicit drug production (i mean, they can't even keep it out of prisons!), how the hell can you stop people using petrol or glue? right now, they've developed a petrol for the communities that doesn't get you high (the aromatics are different). what does it matter. some nasty piece of work is just going to start bringing in good old fashioned petrol and sell it at a premium to users. thanks BP for creating a new kind of drug pusher!!
again, it comes down to addressing the problems that lead kids to substance abuse.
locash:
--- Quote from: DrewKaree on November 17, 2004, 02:26:40 am ---I'm a big fan of prioritization by the government. I also realize there's a slim to none possibility that it will ever happen.
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Huh? What's being prioritized?
DrewKaree:
--- Quote from: teef two on November 17, 2004, 08:31:07 am ---What it all boils down to is self-control. If you can teach that to society then you go an awful long way to stopping the drugs problem.
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in this day and age of passing personal responsibility onto someone else so a person can do what they want, or make enormous sums of money due to their own stupidity, your idea is "pie-in-the-sky" thinking.
While I like pie, and agree with your premise, it's simply never again going to happen. When someone can make millions from McD's because they didn't sufficiently label a product that is, has, and will continue to be, enjoyed in it's HOT form - something, btw, that could be ascertained simply by grabbing the cup and noticing, "hey, that stuff's warm" - then our personal responsibility and self-control in other areas will be pushed until we no longer bear any responsibility for our actions.
When simple hand irons cease to require the warning "Caution - do not iron clothes while on your body", THAT will be the day I see self-control and responsibility for your own actions coming back.
Look around. The government is working to legislate away personal responsibility all the time.
locash:
"We've been tempted to believe that society has become too complex to be managed by self-rule, that government by an elite group is superior to government for, by, and of the people. Well, if no one among us is capable of government himself, then who among us has the capacity to govern someone else?"
-- Ronald Reagan
I couldn't have said it better
Floyd10:
you know what? Ive seen the errors of my ways. I am going to flush out all peopel who have used or do use drugs:
Pink floyd, Led Zepplin, The Beatles, Jesus Christ, Placebo, Korn, KMFDM, Chuck Berry, The Rolling Stones, Mozart, Bach, Beethoven, Slipknot, Bob Marley, Ziggy Marley, Sublime, Alice In Chains, Nirvana, George W. Bush, Janis Jopplin, Jimmi Hendrix. (Just to name a few) of course drugs never enhanced them, and they don't contribute a thing to society. In fact, they've ruined their lives and the lives of everyone around them from their use. Everyone here's right
(removes tongue out of cheek)