I think this is what divides people most on subjects like this.
Read any article on drugs, drink or any type of life style done to excess and you will always get an someone who lived that life who is warning you of the dangers of the slippery slope.
The fact is for every person who slipped down that slope there are hundreds if not thousands of us who didn’t.
I have gambled once or twice but I am not a gambler, I like drink but I am not an alcoholic, I was even trapped in a room with a load of New Age recruiters for a wacky sect once, I enjoyed the experience but I did not decide to shave my head and give them all my money.
In law we have the ruling of the reasonable man, what would a reasonable man do in such a such a case.
Well some people would tell us that the reasonable man or child is a weak thing easy to manipulate, that we must protect them as they are almost incapable of protecting them self’s. I don’t think this means that these people want to dominate or restrict are freedom, but is possibly based on personal experience where when push came to shove they were weak.
If I was to describe a reasonable man or child I would say a lot stronger both mentally and emotionally because I would judge it on my own experiences, my life was not apple pie, and I went through and mixed with some rough people but I came out ok.
There will always be those who no matter what you do are determined to screw there life up somehow and when asked hwy they will always point to the latest fad and say it or they made me do it.
Tony
Statistically, this is pure BS. Yeah, for every kid who tried loose sex, there are hundreds of thousands who didn't wind up single parents? Rates of HPV leading to cerivcal cancer and AIDS alone blie your assertion. There are hundreds of thousands who don't have drinking or drug problems? There are hundreds of thousands whose educations werent put on hold?
Hogwash.
No, for Every Madonna there are hundreds of thousands of urban poor, whose problems include all of what I spoke, including AIDS. I never became a drunk and didn't get hooked on smack. I didn't get beat up, wind up in jail and taken for a "wife." I was lucky.
Now think of the costs that people who do fall pose to you, taxpayer.