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What illegal drugs would you legalize?
Maximilian:
--- Quote from: "psy" ---Just because grandaddy was an drunk who preferred alcohol to you doesn't mean it applies to everybody. He made a choice. He continued to make choices. That's not a mental disease. That's assholitis. You might not just want to admit it because it's so close to home, or you see it through a dogmatic lens. It's why personal anecdotes are so unreliable. Most drunks are obnoxious and embarrassing to be around. Not a whole lot smack kids. Those who do probably would have smacked the kid for a couple hundred dollars while entirely sober. This is why it's fair to only judge those who commit crimes under the influence. To do otherwise is to judge the obnoxious yet relatively harmless other drunks their right to personal sovereignty... or those who use alcohol responsibly.
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If only the world were that simple. Alcoholism and other forms of addiction reside in the realm of irrationality, where choices no longer matter.
none-ya:
--- Quote ---What's his name wrote
"Alcoholism and other forms of addiction reside in the realm of irrationality, where choices no longer matter."
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That's a complete cop out'(in the words of your precious program)
There are allways choices.
Anne Bonney:
--- Quote from: "Maximilian" ---
--- Quote from: "psy" ---Just because grandaddy was an drunk who preferred alcohol to you doesn't mean it applies to everybody. He made a choice. He continued to make choices. That's not a mental disease. That's assholitis. You might not just want to admit it because it's so close to home, or you see it through a dogmatic lens. It's why personal anecdotes are so unreliable. Most drunks are obnoxious and embarrassing to be around. Not a whole lot smack kids. Those who do probably would have smacked the kid for a couple hundred dollars while entirely sober. This is why it's fair to only judge those who commit crimes under the influence. To do otherwise is to judge the obnoxious yet relatively harmless other drunks their right to personal sovereignty... or those who use alcohol responsibly.
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If only the world were that simple. Alcoholism and other forms of addiction reside in the realm of irrationality, where choices no longer matter.
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"Where choices no longer matter"??? Of course they matter. How is it that a lot of people decide to just quit and, lo and behold, they do? They get sick of arguing with family, sick of feeling sick, sick of losing jobs, sick of the guilt so one day they just up and quit. It truly does happen every day. It does have a clinical name - spontaneous remission. If someone is addicted to something to the point where they have physical symptoms of withdrawal, then they need medical help to detox. After that, it's their choice to stay clean or not. If someone isn't physically addicted to a substance (and in some cases even if they are), then they have a choice each and every time they go to pick up a drink/drug.
Maximilian:
Why am I not fat, yet many people struggle with it? Why do I not have a gambling problem, but many people do? Because I choose to be this way? Is it really that simple? It's easy to point fingers and accuse people of willingly destroying their own lives. The reality is a lot more complicated than that.
none-ya:
--- Quote ---Maxi pad wrote
"Why am I not fat"
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For all we know , you are!
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