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Drugs destroyed his life, and it wasn't glorious. I'm not sure what else there is to say

• echelon 5y ago
  He lived a wealthy and colorful life full of ups and downs. I wouldn't want it for myself, but it probably worked out okay for him. We're all monkeys on a space rock. I think it's good we have such variety.
  • dwighttk 5y ago
    > it probably worked out okay for him. He just committed suicide. And if you don’t believe he did I’m not sure that makes a case for it working out okay for him either.
• mitjak 5y ago
  or did he take drugs bc his life was shit? why did you decide to establish this direction of causality?
  • dash2 5y ago
    Maybe most reasonably experienced adults know that drugs screw your life up.
    • Karunamon 5y ago
      That sounds like the opposite of survivorship bias. You don't hear about the ones that didn't screw their lives up.
      • dash2 5y ago
        Yeah. I don't see them either. There are probably very well-organized people out there with a crack habit. The ones I see are the dead-eyed fuckups on the street spreading misery to themselves and their surroundings. But it cuts both ways. There's a phrase "high-functioning alcoholic", meaning someone who still holds down a job, wears respectable clothes and all that. I grew up with a drunk: "high-functioning alcoholic" just means the worms are well concealed inside the can.
      • engineeringwoke 5y ago
        The ones that don't screw their lives up pull back considerably and realize quickly how dangerous drugs are. Especially at high doses for long periods of time, which is how Hunter S. Thompson got his name.
    • stingraycharles 5y ago
      This assumes that drug abuse / addiciton is rational, which it almost certainly is not.
• TearsInTheRain 5y ago
  Did you know him personally to be able to make that judgement. To me it sounds like lying on his taxes destroyed his life, or to be more charitable to him, the government destroyed his life