Wigglez wrote:Just remember. The sword is an extension of your arm. Use it as if you're going to karate chop someone with your really long sharp ass hand.
Professor Smooth wrote:People die from legal drugs like tobacco and alcohol too. Nobody is forcing these people to use drugs. If they are willing to pay good money to get themselves high, then so be it. If a few of them wind up dead afterwards, well, no big loss.
Dark Zarak wrote:Professor Smooth wrote:People die from legal drugs like tobacco and alcohol too. Nobody is forcing these people to use drugs. If they are willing to pay good money to get themselves high, then so be it. If a few of them wind up dead afterwards, well, no big loss.
Lives are ruined and children grow up thinking it's okay to do whatever to survive on mean streets they don't even need to be on.
A good movie to watch is Menace II Society. It's mostly about gang violence, but what's so good about it drug-wise is the way it shows the main character's early childhood, with a violent druggie dad.
If there was some way we could designate certain drugs, like heroin, cocaine, and meth, as off limits and then move in and track down and seize it, and even the people that supply it, it would be only one step toward a cleaner society, but also a police state.
Poverty is the problem. It's the problem to drugs, prostitution, gang violence, and victimizing crimes of all kinds. As long as people are poor, and ignorant of the world, they are angry and desperate.
An attitude of "well, let them get high, it's their bodies" is dangerous, because it's not just them, and it's not just in controled and stable circumstances. I won't even do weed unless I know it's super, super, super smooth sailing for a long time, and only in envioronments that are within my control or my peers' control.
The Avatar of Man wrote:I know quite a few guys that deal in marijanna that really just stay in their normal circle and are perfectly nice guys. If they were in a gang and had a violent agenda, then sure I'd rat, but they're not-- they're just a few perfectly respectable people that like to get high now and then. The mode of right transcends law, and, in my code, if you keep peacefully to your own, then so be it. I'd personally feel like **** if I ever ratted on any of them.
I personally don't believe in the banning of any substance or the outlawing of an entire species of organism because of the holucenagenic effects it has on people-- regulation and education, probably, but incarceration no-- when you consider we now have 2 million people in our prison systems, half of which there for drug violations, you realize something isn't working.
EDIT: If you want to end most of the 'drug epidemic' in ten years, make everything legal and start pulling money from the prisons and into rehab and education. The tobacco companies cash in and pump the stuff out cheap so there's no more mystique or 'cool factor' or massive profit gain for dealing, and people soon realize for themselves it's no big deal.
Professor Smooth wrote:Poverty definitely plays a factor. But what would you do, since you are in a position to judge people's morals? Some guy lives in the ghetto and is trying to raise three kids. He can't get a job because of some mistakes he made earlier in life. So either he can live on the street and have his kids taken away from him (and believe me, the US adoption system is NOT a great place to be) or he can sell drugs to somebody who is more than willing to pay him and at least try to provide for his family.
It's a terribly sad situation that has no easy answers. You want to get rid of drugs? Take a look at the root problem. People don't really like reality. They come from all over the monetary scale. The dirt poor use drugs to escape the reality that they are dirt poor and life will probably suck for them forever. The spoiled high school brat in the suburbs is bored so he uses coke to get high. The super rich feel like they've done everything there is to do so they use drugs just to try something new.
Senor Hugo wrote:Since I moved to Fort Wayne, my roommate has gotten a girlfriend, they're like a brother and sister to me. His girlfriend has a niece that usually comes over every now and again, so shes become my niece by proxy.
Anyway, her mother is a meth head, her father(my roommates girlfriend's brother) was a former druggie, he's cleaned up his act and all that stuff. Anyway, she still does drugs, cooks the **** in the kitchen while the niece is there, shes 6 mind you.
Now, due to all this crap, she pulls the most retarded ****, basically she said that the father was touching the niece, so all this crap ensues. Investigation is done, the mother was lying. But the courts are still doing stuff about it, all the while, the entire family on the mothers side is talking about how the mother is still doing meth and all that crap.
So it pisses me off. You hear about how the stuff happens to kids, and you get disgusted by how the parents could do that. It's even more so when it's someone you know, tripled if it's a child.
Professor Smooth wrote:Yep. Drugs seem to be a lot of risk just for a quick thrill. So are skydiving and bungee jumping.
Bombus distinguendus wrote:u do the crime u do the time. if ur gonna be stupid and do/sell drugs then u deserve to be punished to the full extent of the law.
The Avatar of Man wrote:Bombus distinguendus wrote:u do the crime u do the time. if ur gonna be stupid and do/sell drugs then u deserve to be punished to the full extent of the law.
But is the law making it a crime just?
Prowl20 wrote:I still stand by what I originally said. What good ever came from snitching? Theres nothing wrong with knowing people who do drugs. Don't go assuming Im siding with druggies because "I've probably done drugs before, etc, etc" Im straight edge, I dont do drugs or drink but tons of my friends do and I really dont see why people get their panties in a bunch over what someone else does. Im not trying to start ****, I just think people should worry less about other peoples business / lives and focus on themselves for a change. Nothing pisses me off more than someone whose too caught up with other peoples lives than their own.
Loose lips sink ships, nuff said.
Prowl20 wrote:I still stand by what I originally said. What good ever came from snitching? Theres nothing wrong with knowing people who do drugs. Don't go assuming Im siding with druggies because "I've probably done drugs before, etc, etc" Im straight edge, I dont do drugs or drink but tons of my friends do and I really dont see why people get their panties in a bunch over what someone else does. Im not trying to start ****, I just think people should worry less about other peoples business / lives and focus on themselves for a change. Nothing pisses me off more than someone whose too caught up with other peoples lives than their own.
Loose lips sink ships, nuff said.
Jar Axel wrote:The Avatar of Man wrote:Bombus distinguendus wrote:u do the crime u do the time. if ur gonna be stupid and do/sell drugs then u deserve to be punished to the full extent of the law.
But is the law making it a crime just?
Are the laws against drinking and driving just?
Helen Lovejoy wrote:Won't somebody please think of the children???
Jar Axel wrote:One word Avatar responsability, or in the case of the vast majority of users it's the lack there of.
Senor Hugo wrote:Prowl20 wrote:I still stand by what I originally said. What good ever came from snitching? Theres nothing wrong with knowing people who do drugs. Don't go assuming Im siding with druggies because "I've probably done drugs before, etc, etc" Im straight edge, I dont do drugs or drink but tons of my friends do and I really dont see why people get their panties in a bunch over what someone else does. Im not trying to start ****, I just think people should worry less about other peoples business / lives and focus on themselves for a change. Nothing pisses me off more than someone whose too caught up with other peoples lives than their own.
Loose lips sink ships, nuff said.
Yes yes, and you can slap a jap by buying war bonds. This isn't WW2.
Also, what you're saying is, if a friend of yours is doing drugs around a child, you would just do nothing.
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