RE: Why hate Athiest?
March 14, 2013 at 10:15 pm
(This post was last modified: March 14, 2013 at 10:16 pm by jstrodel.)
(March 14, 2013 at 2:46 am)Esquilax Wrote:(March 13, 2013 at 10:03 am)jstrodel Wrote: Why are you so quick to defend drugs?
Luckie's defending personal responsibility, you moron.
No, she isn't. Addictive behaviors are not reducible solely to personal choices. It is a medical fact that drugs are addictive. I would never place the blame for my actions on anyone else but myself, but to fail to recognize the fact that drugs affect your brain and decision making directly is a serious problem.
What Luckie said is something that no doctor in America would ever say. She did not say that people have personal responsibility. She repeated a common drug addict lie that "drugs aren't responsible for peoples problems, people are".
The confusion that centers around the dual roles that drug use and the role of personal decisions is not something you will see many medicals doctors talking about. It is what you will see enlightened 18 year olds on erowid arguing back and forth about, as well as crackheads, and the people in between. Drugs are addictive, period.
There is no debating this. Drugs affect the brain directly, why not just stop in your tracks and accept that both the physical composition of drugs and their relationship to neurochemistry AND individual behavior play a role in addiction and be an adult instead of living in the fantasy world of the super-smart internet exotic psychedelic user who knows everything and is one step ahead of the medical community.
