I tend to be a bit prejudiced against drug users...
...as weak-willed individuals who could wean themselves off the smack if only they had the gumption.

And yet, at the same time, I cannot resist Jaffa Cakes.

Just call me inconsistent.
( Amish Information Systems hates misplaced, commas, Thu 1 Apr 2010, 16:37, 21 replies)

You're inconsistent.

( flake has nothing against your right leg, Thu 1 Apr 2010, 16:41, closed)

Right, since you're under my spell...
...send me £1000!
( Amish Information Systems hates misplaced, commas, Thu 1 Apr 2010, 17:33, closed)

*sends £1000*

( flake has nothing against your right leg, Thu 1 Apr 2010, 17:36, closed)

Thanks.
This "make $$$ on teh interwebs" is a lot simpler than I thought it would be.
( Amish Information Systems hates misplaced, commas, Sat 3 Apr 2010, 23:12, closed)

Not all drug users...
..are addicts.

But yes, you are quite right - no sympathy at all for addicts. Everyone knows that if you take heroin regularly then you stand the chance of an addiction. Have some will power.
( 100% Cock Raw like carrots., Thu 1 Apr 2010, 16:41, closed)

"no sympathy at all for addicts."

Why? Coke is more or less as addictive - it just tends to be taken by people who can afford it and they tend to take it entirely for fun, despite how much the production of it fucks up people's lives.

So, why is a heroin addict who (generally speaking) takes drugs for escapism worse than someone who takes drugs for crapulous pleasure?
( monkeon schmonkeon, Thu 1 Apr 2010, 19:38, closed)

its the illegality
that fucks up the countries of origin not the drugs.
(unclestinky, Thu 1 Apr 2010, 22:56, closed)

To be fair
often people end up taking heroin to mentally escape from a shitty existence for a while, so it's hard for them to have to motivation to get off it if all getting off it means is living in the real world which offers them so little.
( monkeon schmonkeon, Thu 1 Apr 2010, 16:54, closed)

But...
They fail to realise that the "escape from the reality of their shitty existence" is only temporary.

As soon as the high wears off, there's a low - which makes their existence even MORE shitty. And then they have to feed their habit - often (OK, not in ALL cases I know) resorting to crime because the stuff's so expensive, and they don't have any money.

It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy: if their life was not shit in the first place, they have certainly turned it into diarrhœa by getting involved with drugs.
(EuroSong I love horse meat: best of all the animals, Thu 1 Apr 2010, 17:44, closed)

True that it's a self fulfilling prophecy,
but it also seems a near-impossible thing to get out of when someone is stuck in it - and often it's something that started when they were young enough not to know better.

Personally, I think junkies generally deserve pity rather than scorn.
( monkeon schmonkeon, Thu 1 Apr 2010, 18:27, closed)

Oh come on...
Are you saying that it's possible to be "too young to know better"?

How old do you think many of these people were when they started taking drugs? Five?

Anyone over the age of 10 surely knows the basic message that "drugs are bad (mmmkay)". Children know the concept of addiction, and the fact that it's better not to be addicted to something, because if you are reliant on a substance then you have less freedom.

If anyone gets into drugs who is truly ignorant of the *possibility* that it will cause them more harm than good, then it's hard to pity them.

The only person I'd pity is a hypothetical person who was physically forced to take drugs to the point that they got addicted through no fault of their own.
(EuroSong I love horse meat: best of all the animals, Thu 1 Apr 2010, 20:15, closed)

Almost everyone is reckless as a teenager.
Hence, if this recklessness takes the form of drug use, they'll naturally assume that they are not going to become addicted.

Most won't, some do. It's a gamble.
( monkeon schmonkeon, Thu 1 Apr 2010, 20:43, closed)

I too can't help seeing all smokers as weak willed pathetic addicts...
...But then there's absolutely no way in this world I would ever give up wanking. Even if you told me it caused ball cancer. Nope, wouldn't do it.
(Schrodinger's Goldfish, Thu 1 Apr 2010, 17:10, closed)

smoking is good though

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 1 Apr 2010, 17:23, closed)

Have you seen the new South Park yet?

( Turquoise Hexagon Sun has just dropped acid on, Thu 1 Apr 2010, 18:24, closed)

I think everyone above me a drug addict.

( Digeridude Lord Wellington's Beef Trapeze, Thu 1 Apr 2010, 17:12, closed)

prick
(johnjohnjohnextra2, Thu 1 Apr 2010, 17:13, closed)

Yes, they do.
I believe that's why needle exchanges are so vital.
( Amish Information Systems hates misplaced, commas, Thu 1 Apr 2010, 17:33, closed)

Yeah, but...
Jaffa Cakes.
(Richy_T hundreds if not thousands of dollars, Thu 1 Apr 2010, 17:49, closed)

yeah but . . .
drugs
( horace wimp needs more than 49 characters to fully express hi, Thu 1 Apr 2010, 18:25, closed)

Which is better
Jaffa Cakes or Drugs?

There's only one way to find out...
( Amish Information Systems hates misplaced, commas, Sat 3 Apr 2010, 23:13, closed)