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You make it sound like your children don't have a choice whether to take drugs or not. You could argue similarly by replacing drugs with anything (legal) that
by WA 14y ago
You make it sound like your children don't have a choice whether to take drugs or not.
You could argue similarly by replacing drugs with anything (legal) that could harm your children. For example, do you blame motorcycle vendors for being responsible for deaths and hardship among the families of motorcyclists?
Drugs and motorcycles are certainly different, but it's a bit too easy to blame drug traffickers or dealers only without taking into consideration the parents and the social circle of the children.
- mike_esspe 14y agoIn modern society it is implied, that person taking drugs is losing their free will and requires guardianship. Whether it is scientifically correct is a question.
- mynameisvlad 14y agoDoesn't change the fact that the person, in most cases, had to make a choice to start taking the drugs. It's not as if you wake up one day, and you're now instantly addicted to cocaine and are destroying your life. You had to make the choice to start using the drugs.
- gijjk 14y agoAll people make small mistakes all the time, and usually can recover. Few of them involve falling into an abyss, but tasting meth or heroin or maybe crack are among them.
- mynameisvlad 14y agoIt's not like the second you've had meth or heroin for the first time you're instantly and irrevocably addicted to it. There's definitely an ability to recover from that.
- ef4 14y ago> In modern society it is implied, that person taking drugs is losing their free will If that was really true, we wouldn't hold them criminally responsible for their actions.
- ed209 14y agoUnlike recreational drugs, motorcycles are a useful tool that enables society to go about its business. Knives also enable me to prepare dinner and surgeons to remove my appendix. I don't think that class A drugs carry the same risk/benefit ratio, do you? Also, I think you missed the part where I said that society and family carry some of the responsibility for that child taking drugs, but then you were too busy arguing the point you wanted to make rather than actually tackling what I said directly.
- ferrouswheel 14y agoClass A drugs actually have a range of benefits, from curing addiction(!), depression, PTSD, migraines, and inspiring people creatively. This is not for all drugs, and some also have associated risks, but they are not by nature "bad". Unfortunately, these drugs often are unpatentable, so it's safer to make them illegal (class A so that law says they "have no medical purpose"). Then big pharma can find less effective substances, sell them for more, and it's all under the guise of safety.