Nice cha-cha there. People who use illegal drugs to escape reality are cowards. You can look over my posts for a long time and never see me condemn people who have serious pain. They need to see Doctors. People who use drugs to escape reality are cowards, and no culture values cowardice.
There are evidently a lot of people here on Free Republic who have a guilty conscience.
Yeah, because the high from oxycontin has nothing to do with it, right? Sorry, when you’re doctor shopping and stockpiling, you’re escaping. So by you limbaugh is still an insane coward.
You better give up dancing. It’s like watching a fat old white guy on Soul Train. It’s just that sad.
I disagree, and I have actual life experience to back up what I assert.
I was a crack cocaine user for some time, and I have a significant time clean now. I used pot prior to that.
I did so, not out of cowardice, but out of unresolved issues that are personal to me. If a chance had been there to deal with those issues.....or even my *awareness* of that chance....OR EVEN AWARENESS OF THE ISSUES THEMSELVES.... I certainly would have done something different. However, it takes getting into treatment to start the process of discovery of what is making you act out in such a self-destructive fashion, and then discovery on what to do about it all.
These things took time and information. Mostly time. Believe me, cowardice is not part of the equation here. I have been in harrowing drug situations that would make many men collapse into the fetal position.
You cannot possibly ascribe a single word -- cowardice -- to what motivates a user. I probably, with many paragraphs, have barely even scratched the surface of what motivated me. I do know that treatment helped; bravery would not have. I was already brave. I braved police, ripoffs, guns under my chin, narrow escapes, beat-downs, poverty, and job losses.
Please open your concept-universe to be aware that maybe you don't have an answer, certainly not with a single word.
Kindest regards this holiday season.
You've agreed elsewhere that people who use the legal drug alcohol to escape from reality are likewise cowards. What ought we do about the cowardice of people who use the legal drug alcohol to escape from reality? (Note that criminalizing the cowardice of people who use other drugs to escape from reality does nothing about the cowardice of people who use the legal drug alcohol to escape from reality.)