British history channel vs Japanese history channel
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If someone you were responsible for goes off and does a bender of Cocaine and Xanax, you've forfeited being called a good person by failing as both a parent and a citizen by sending such a fuckup out into the world.
I dunno about that; I know a few very normal families who have lost people to opioid overdoses, though. I don't wanna be too specific, but one of them the guy, who was religious and straight edge, had never done any drugs before. He got injured and got a prescription for opiates. He had moved back in with his parents after the injury after having lived in another state for a long time -- IDK if because of injury or drugs or both. but anyways he ended up getting what he thought was heroin in the suburbs and he died at home.
It's a kind of fire that will kill you if you play with it. but otherwise is pretty like normal drugs inasmuch as how hard it seems to be to stay off.
Self control is a taught virtue and it applies even if its not some "evil sinful" temptation in front of you, but one you should partake in regardless.
My most of my immediate family, including both my parents, died young from either lifelong drug habits or overdoses. No one will recieve an ounce of sympathy from me for junkies and their deaths, even if its from a necessary drug like pain killer. Including myself, who does not take most of the prescribed anti-pain meds after major surgery and simply lives with some of the pain to avoid developing a habit, and doesn't even consume alcohol in the slightest.
Allowing people to become "blameless" due to victimhood is to start the path of removing their agency, and in doing so create an entire culture where things "just happen and its tragic" instead of a teachable lesson we can glean to prevent it from doing so. Even if it means beating down a parent burying their child cruelly.
Yeah I don't drink or use opiates either. I used to drink. I never used opiates.
I've never touched anything harder than caffeine, and I've kicked that a few times just to prove to myself I could. Almost got in the gambling hole, but recognized it happening and got out.
Which is why my stance on it is so hard, for both those who come have everything like Susan's son and those who think they have nothing but to turn to it. I've lived as proof that there is no excuse, ever, for it.