> I simply fail to understand why so many people do drugs in the first place, and I have little sympathy for addicts. Do you know one? If not, don't judge. Try

> I simply fail to understand why so many people do drugs in the first place, and I have little sympathy for addicts. Do you know one? If not, don't judge. Try to have sympathy. Try to be a decent empathetic human being and understand that people have different life circumstances than you, and the fact that they are addicts does not make them undeserving of sympathy. > If you do drugs, you'll probably ruin your life. It's simple cause and effect. Nope. Because you have the cause and effect backwards. More often than not, people doing these sorts of drugs already are in a tough spot in life. They do drugs BECAUSE their life is already in shambles or because they're already suffering from a mental illness. This is not to say that the drugs won't continue to cause people to spiral downwards (because they often will), but it is to say that the kind of person who chooses to inject a substance of unknown purity directly into their bloodstream is most likely NOT the kind of person who has their life together to begin with. And I know plenty of people who do drugs and their lives are just fine. Because they're normal, well adjusted people who choose to do them because it's fun and _not_ to escape their problems, which is unfortunately the case for a lot of people who become addicts. So is it really so simple?