I’d like to challenge the notion that people willingly engage in risky behavior in spite of being exposed to a perfectly fine and better alternatives. Most spec

I’d like to challenge the notion that people willingly engage in risky behavior in spite of being exposed to a perfectly fine and better alternatives. Most specifically, many religions have had fraught relationships with gay people, in fact many current dominant religions do. So a gay person may be completely justified in declining to participate in the spirituality/philosophy way of living if their previous exposures to that were abuse. Also, I would like to challenge the idea that living a non-drug life is attributable to some philosophical or religious ideology. I follow no philosophical or religious ideology enough to describe myself as a follower of any sort of way and I’m not pursuing a risky lifestyle.