Yes, you have to say why people want it so desperately that they are willing to do terrible things to get it and are willing to die from using it
Because people are just plain stupid.
Tell them NOT to dive in a certain place because it is dangerous - rocks, undercurrents, debris, etc. - and some smuck will do it.
Liberals are more willing to experiment or take risks, unless you have the “jock class” who have to show off how strong and brave they are (and crippled or dead they will be).
I know two people, one an old neighbor of mine, who did stupid things and lived, but ... The first one totaled a 1956 T-Bird into a wall and lived (went out an bought a 57 T Bird).
The other, a very nice, good looking guy, attended my college (in 1962+). He totaled a motorcycle by hitting a wall (speeding was probably the cause), and was crippled for life. He could barely use his hands to hold things and feed himself, and he had a very bad limp in one lega.
He was a nice guy but his youthful exuberance turned him into a lifelong cripple. He didn’t do anything to deserve it except become reckless at one time when he should have known better. My prays always went out for him.
My son lost two of his best female “buddies” when they got drunk one night and sped down US 95 in No. Virginia. He had to bury bought of them and it hurt him for years, and he was a combat veteran of Iraq who saw some pretty terrible things. Two lovely girls wiped out in seconds.
People who use illegal drugs are just plain stupid no matter how decent they are, but they know that they can be deadly. It’s like playing Russian roulette. There is always the possibility that the bullet is in your chamber. The smart thing to do is to put it down, unload it, and walk away.
Drugs are like bullets and roulette that you play with every day of your life, and more often than not, you will lose.
And liberals keep on wanting to make drug use more available and more legal. How stupid is this? And why are they that stupid in the first place?
I know some of the answers but not all. But have you seen any major Democrat Party effort to fight deadly illegally imported drugs, esp. since many come from Mexico through “illegal” mules and cartels?
The answer is “NO” because it is more important to them to get the “illegals” to support them politically with the promises of citizenship through an amnesty, than it is to stop the flow of deadly drugs into our country (and the Dems almost never say anything about Red China. Why not? Is it because the Reds funded the Clintons/Gore in the 1990’s to the tune of tens of millions of illegal campaign contributions through fronts and cut-out Buddhist nuns?
You’re damned right it is.
Until we start teaching our children and our citizens what is “dangerous” to their well-being on a national level, naming names and countries, then the death from illegal drugs and abuse of opiates will continue unabated.
Just because you have an education doesn’t mean you have Common Sense. The daily death toll from illegal drugs proves that point like the apple which hit Isaac Newton in the head proved gravity exists.
Unfortunately, the apples that are falling on our children are “fruits of the poisonous apple tree” and too many of us refuse to cut that tree down, even if it means saving their own children’s lives.