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All I am saying you don't want some random druggie that just got high to start shooting random people or maybe someone in your family because he can't get his fix.
There is no point of doing drugs other than to cure or help a sickness or disease which a doctor has prescribed to you. And if you are doing drugs other than that then you need help because you have a problem because you are using the drugs to fill some void or think it makes life easier.
Those druggies wouldn't have trouble getting their fix if the drugs weren't illegal. Then they could kill themselves in peace, and the problem would die out on it's own.
And not everyone that uses a substance is troubled - why are you on this forum? Because you play video games, right? Aren't video games just filling a void? Before kids had video games and all the fancy toys they have these days, they used to entertain themselves with simple things like tops, yo yos, and pushing wagon wheels down the street with sticks. Everything we do that isn't productive is just to fill a void. So you're a video game addict, and you need an intervention, because you're troubled.
My name is Styles, and I'm an entertainment-aholic
Drugs =/= Video games
Two whole different things completely. You don't shoot video games in your veins or drink video games you play them so I have no clue how you are even comparing the two. Funny how video games are legal and drugs are not.
You don't see people shooting random people because they cant afford to buy themselves a Nintendo Wii.
You don't play video games because you think it will make life easier but people who do drugs do they take them and they think that all their personal problems will go away when they get high.
Dude, you have a seriously fucked outlook. I'll hold my hands up to being a recreational drug user for the last 20 years. I've enjoyed weed, hash, coke, speed, acid, mushrooms and ecstacy. I've never once robbed anyone, killed anyone or attacked anyone over drugs. You've been watching way too much of the 30s version of Reefer Madness.
Sure there are drugs that will turn your life upside down, the simplest solution is to not do them. The people you're describing will behave exactly the same if they're drugged up or not. And yes, you can compare drugs to video games. Have you not heard of World of Warcraft? I've seen just as many people fuck up their lives cos of their need to spend all their time in the game world as I have drugs.
As far as I'm aware the kids who shot up Columbine weren't on drugs. Nor was the bloke who shot up that university last year. Some people are just broken.
I've been around, and I'll even confess to the fact that I was a drug dealer for many years. There are people who use drugs to fill a void in themselves, I've met them, but those same people though would be obsessed by whatever they think makes them acceptable. Usually drugs aren't the problem, the people taking the drugs are the problem. Video games are probably more addictive then most drugs because they are made to be addictive. They are made to make you want to spend all your free time and money on them. The only drugs that are specifically made to be addictive are crack and heroin, they both have physical withdrawels. Most people are psychologically addicted to drugs, but it's because they allow the drugs to define them rather than them defining the drugs they use. Usually you'll see it in people who have inferiority complexes and other confidence issues.
There's lots of reasons that people take drugs, it's not really something you can define so simply. At the same time though you should be asking yourself why people are addicted to fashion, MMORPGs, MySpace, Facebook, eBay and other things. And before you return with "People don't do the same thing for computer games" look into the matter a little more. You've never heard of someone shoplifting the latest game, cd, movie, t-shirt etc. etc. cos they "have to have them"? Hell, plenty of kids have been killed over their sneakers. The sneakers weren't stolen to be sold for drugs, they were stolen because the thief wanted them.
Stop being taken in by propoganda and learn to think for yourself.
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