Using AI to mitigate the pedo problem - yea or nay?
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Lol, he ain't gonna offer it free. That's propaganda to simplify it. The same way abstinence is taught rather than the nuances of safer sex.
But just like every other form of salesmanship, it being there massively increases your chance of buying it. These are salesmen, they know how to sell you things. Even if they are dealing out of a dirty trap house, the same techniques still apply and will be used as they would at a car dealership or furniture store.
So, while you might be someone who is able to not fall for those tricks, they work on the majority of people consistently. That's why they are taught and used.
You haven't met enough women then. This is usually how they start, sucking dick to get free drugs gleefully before it turns into "I hate this but I need it." Shit its why drug dealers always have girlfriends lined up, even if they are ugly goblin men.
I agree, it is very real. Men too, plenty of hardcore addicts will be "gay for pay" because getting high is more important than, well, anything else! Plenty of homos eager to exploit them, now that it's normalized & open in society.
Once young people hop onto the drink/drugs bandwagon? They're very likely to be wanting to go "one step higher" and at least try harder drugs.
I once knew a group of pot-smoking ex-bikers who only smoked & drank for over a decade. They almost self-destructed after one of them got into the cocaine & it spread to most of them. They all went through hell but managed to dig out together.
I think their answer to "want something harder" now is "No thank you, and if you ever ask me again I will smash your face in."
I think guys fall into the camp he was talking about of people who don't even want the drugs but are so addicted that they will do it anyway. The methheads on Tiger King I think were great examples, a bunch of guys who'd probably be massive homophobes but were doing gay shit because they just needed that hit.
I don't doubt there are also plenty of gays willing to suck dick for the taste and the free drugs, however. The same way plenty of slutty dumb women are.
I do think this is less likely than it seems. Sure there are probably adrenaline seekers out there happy to jump to coke for the thrill, but few people are getting on fentanyl or meth to "go higher."
I think this idea comes from trying to put all drugs in the same category and temptations. Things like molly and coke and other "party drugs" absolutely are mostly young/rich people wanting to go higher, while "street drugs" like heroin and crack are likely more like a stumble in to.
DARE and other programs tried to muddle down thier message for literal children, the only people who'd such a simple form would work on. But then those kids became teenagers and instantly rebelled like teens do, and because of it they treat DARE messaging like some gospel everyone believed.
Yeah, I think a definition of "addict" includes those who don't want the drug, but have to have it anyhow. By any means necessary, usually. WS Burroughs wrote a lot how every junkie wants to kick, especially when they don't have enough junk. But they still go get the junk anyhow.
I agree that not all pot smokers will go on to higher drugs, by far most will not. But as the raw # of potheads rises? So does the raw # of hard drug users too. I think a certain baseline % exists. I think there's a higher correlation between cigarettes and hard drugs than pot, but that's probably just me 😸
And yeah, telling teens not to do something, while at the same time saying "If you DO do it? Here's how!" isn't the best idea :/