Sophie, I am absolutely with you on the thing about choice. I have a lot of very strong opinions about what people should and shouldn't do in order to live well and be good people. But I'm disgusted by the suggestion that anybody's opinions about such things should be made law.
On 2005-09-16 16:28:00, Sophie wrote:
So.. why does it make people so uptight about me not getting high and choosing a model to live by that actually makes me happy? It seems threatening or something? I don't get it.
It's not at all threatening that you don't drink. Why, if every stepper in the world fell off the waggon tonight, the prices would go up and there would be less beer for me. That would make me sad. :sad:
However, it is rather annoying that ya' just can't have a hearty intellectual discussion about stepcraft in any public venue w/o either squashing dissent (which I won't do) or being accused of trying to kill junkies and drunks. Fact is, I love junkies and drunks and would never dream of doing anything to hurt them.
But that's it. It only rises to the level of annoyance in this kind of venue. In the public arena, it's a real problem. I just wish the formal XA organizations would come out w/ an open letter stating their position on drug policy. Most avowed steppers I know agree that prohibition sucks, though too many think that coerced treatment would solve that problem. If they'd state it, then we could debate it. But, of course, that would blow their cover as an apolitical organization.
Of course they're not. They're no more apolitical than the Southern Baptist Convention is.
So that will never happen. That makes me sad too.
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