Hmmm, I was just trolling somebody who I thought would be easy to bug (I was right), but this turned into a full-fledged discussion. I guess I'll add my two cents so I'm not just the jackass at the beginning of the discussion.
Of course drug use is irresponsible. I thought that was part of the appeal. Nobody is responsible all the time and if that's the way you want to act out, so be it. Personally, I enjoy drinking alcohol on occasion but the rest of the drug world is not for me. Pot is just so lame (the culture that is) and makes people slightly shittier than they would be otherwise. Whenever my friends smoke, its like they have summoned a slightly worse version of themselves for a couple hours. I don't have much experience with harder drugs but frankly I'm glad for that.
Before all the pot smokers get up in arms, let me assure you that this is not a moral judgment. I am not looking down on you. I'm just going on my personal experiences of being around high people. I'm a little concerned that my judgment of people really bothers some people on this board, although admittedly I was trolling. If you want to get high, I hope you do without worrying about what cookiecutter on the Ultimate Metal Forum thinks about it.
I don't think anyone here really takes what some user on the internet says to heart; tbh, I find it an interesting discussion... but I still disagree that drug use is
inherently irresponsible. It depends on outside factors, such as type of drug, frequency of use, where you do it, etc.
I mean, yeah, getting into a habit, developing into drug abuse, that'd be irresponsible. Doing something stupid like getting into a car and driving while stoned is also really irresponsible, and shows an incredible lack of intelligence.
But as I said, the only way one could argue that lighting up a joint infrequently, lets say once every month, is irresponsible, is in the sense that there is a
RISK to one's personal well-being over time. To that, I'd say that as said above, there are tons of things in life that are
RISKS to one's personal well-being. Climbing into a car, even sober, is a risk people take every day. Hell, taking a fucking bath, is a risk due to the minute chance (but a chance nonetheless) of drowning in the tub.
Taking risks are something that people do on a daily basis. I don't think you would argue that doing the above would make one "irresponsible", no? It's not like they're even inescapable parts of life either... you could take public transit and not get yourself into a crash, you could take showers and not drown. Sure, you could also not smoke pot*. But the risk here is so small and negligable in the first place, that calling all drug use inherently "irresponsible" is just, as I said, overzealous.
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"smoking pot" refers to infrequent, non-habitual use here.
Wow, you have a killer instinct. On the other hand you feel offended for enormous bullshits.
