Posted on 02/06/2014 5:33:55 PM PST by grundle
New York Police officers arrested four men Tuesday night on suspicion of having a connection to drugs. Police acted after receiving a tip that the four had sold heroin to actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, who was found dead from an overdose of the drug on February 2.
Drug dealers are far from my favorite people, and the arrests are welcome, but no drug dealer killed Philip Hoffman. Only one person is, ultimately, responsible for his death: Philip Seymour Hoffman, himself.
Mr. Hoffman was the one who procured the drug, injected the drug and kept injecting the drug. Mr. Hoffman was the one who risked leaving his girlfriend to deal with her grief and leaving their children, ages 10, 7 and 5, to deal with theirs.
No genetic anomaly can make a person text a dealer, withdraw a stack of bills from an ATM, pick up a supply of 70 bags of heroin, tie a tourniquet around his arm and inject the stuff into his vein.
No quirk of neurochemistry can make you rate getting high as more important than getting your kids through life. Only a disorder of character can do that.
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My Father-in-Law had one brother who was a general and another who had been a skid row bum. In his 60s he came to live with and sort of take care of his parents until they died.
He must have somehow kicked the habit as I never saw him drunk. The interesting thing is I liked him better than any of his far more successful siblings.
When I worked alcohol treatment back in the day we said "There is no gene that makes you cash your pay check in a bar instead of the bank next door."
“What does doing cocaine make you feel like? It makes you feel like doing more cocaine.”—Robin Williams
“They say taking drugs amplifies your personality. Yes...but what if you’re an a—hole?”—Bill Cosby
True.
However I would also say that only one person is ultimately responsible for the dealer being a dealer of deadly substances and that is the dealer.
In both cases it is sad.
Correct.
And she went right along with having three kids and no ring.
Hoffman had the talent of a leading man and the face and body of a gay dog catcher. Heroin made him Brad Pitt
He could have spent millions on the finest therapy in the finest settings and he threw it away. The dealer wouldn’t be there if in fact he wasn’t wanted. Most sweat out their addictions in prison, or a less than nice rehab facility.
It’s not like he was short of friends he could talk to. I am dead sure that if for five minutes he had realized all he had, he would have been easily able to face it all. He could have conquered his demons and gone on to ever more glorious heights. He could have been a fine example and success story.
The dealer is being treated like the scapegoat. Like it’s his fault that he has customers. Hoffman would have been able to go to someone else.
Women like this are such losers.
If it hadn’t been this dealer, it would have been someone else giving him the drugs.
Good for you staying sober and clean!
Exactly; a lot people have problems in life, but don’t turn to drugs and it’s all choice in the end. By a certain point in life, we are all able to know what is and isn’t good for us and what it will do to us if we get involved with it.
I often think some people aren’t meant for major success and are better at the humble things. The real problem begins when in the view of many, the humble things aren’t good enough. So the humble and decent types can’t handle the disdain.
Acting is an escape from reality, too.
I’m sick to my near death of hearing about this junkie’s “tragic” death.
He had it all, and threw it away for his nasty habit.
Yes this old guy was what I would call a comfortable person to be around. When we would visit my wife’s grand parents he would sit in a rocker on the back porch smoking a cigarette. I would often go sit beside him. He didn’t say much unless you asked him but if you did he was interesting.
He was also good at remembering things past. I got the impression that his large number of siblings were a little bit ashamed of him. My wife said he had been a genuine skid row bum, living homeless and drunk. He did look like he had led a tough life, was small and looked a bit worn out.
Like I said to start with, he was a pleasant guy to be around.
I agree
I think the relations that were ashamed of him are likelier to be rotting in Hades once it comes to their time.
really..like his self indulgent death matters more than:
some housewife with fibromyalgia and a bad habit forgot how many Oxys she took that day
or some black kid dead from too much crack in some cold stoop somewhere
or some hillbilly kin of mine blows his meth lab and hisself up in some hollow on the plateau
and so forth
personally...i detest the cult of personality and attaching so much value on the ectoplasm of these pretend folks
ISRA Thursday Bulletin - February 6
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR’S MESSAGE
“The death of actor Phillip Seymour Hoffman, who died Sunday with a syringe full heroine stuck in his arm, is being lamented by many, but not by me. Hoffman narrated an antigun cartoon which demonizes gun ownership along with actress Julianne Moore and of course, it was financed by MAIG. The media is falling all over themselves saying what a wonderful guy he was, what a wonderful actor he was, and on and on. I disagree. People like Hoffman are part of the drug culture that is destroying our young people and tearing the fabric of this county apart.”
Yep. It’s really dangerous to suddenly be able to afford your vices. And people wonder why Justin Bieber is blowing himself up.
It takes a lot of discipline to have a lot of money and not completely blow it. Mike Tyson gets made fun of for blowing $100 million but how many of us would do better. I’d do better now that I’m in my 40s. At 24, I’d be dead from partying, driving fast, or both.
I am just saying that that all participants in this sad case, (with the exception of his children) made a willing and knowing choice.
I see no mitigating circumstances here for any of the adults.
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