ok show me a society that allows hard drug use where that drug use does not destroy the individual and that destruction does not have a cost to the society. i do agree that we should treat it as a medical problem but what do you do when the individual scoffs at you when you tell him his habit is destructive and he should get treatment.i used to run a business,a trucking company, that had a lot of drug use among the employees and i can hell you they are not good employees. do we just have to accept more of this just so druggies can have their freedoms? http://wcbstv.com/local/taconic.state.parkway.2.1114132.html
all this hand-wringing ... You Do Drugs? YOU Deal with the consequences.... Not a thread goes by where these fools don't reveal themselves
i used to run a business,a trucking company, ------------- Just curious, do you follow any trucking co stocks or transportation?
no. i have been retired from that business for many years now. there are much better industries to invest in. trucking sucks as a business. anybody can buy a pos truck and call themselves a trucking business. no barrier to entry. if you had to buy a trucking related stock something like chrw is a place to look. they get a cut off the top of every freight load they book without any of the expenses.
anybody can buy a pos truck and call themselves a trucking business. --------------- lol. me - gypsy mover. Seriously, I agree. I can recall one trucking stock I followed and that was a few years ago, just not interested.
Sorry, but I have to strongly disagree with your diagnosis- LoZZZer is definitely NOT a narcissist! While it certainly lacks <b>positive</b> empathy, the troll is overwhelmed with feelings of <b>negative</b> empathy, i.e. sadism. Its entire raison d'être is to feed off the negative emotions of others- emotions that would barely even register (or matter) to a true narcissist. A narcissist is almost always of neutral alignment (usually chaotic-neutral), not caring enough for the feelings of others to go out of his way to help them (=good) or hurt them (=evil).
I grant you expertise in narcissism, after all you did admit to same... However, that abundant narcissism of yours disqualifies you to evaluate others, simply because your filtering mechanism is so far turned inward toward admiration of yourself as to fully distort any accurate view of others...
I'm as right as right comes ( the political right, not a declaration of my certitutde) Legalize Drugs ... Then Legalize Killing Thieves
RM, This may cause you to reflect a bit: http://www.amazon.com/Seeds-Terror-...=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1260313824&sr=8-1 Seeds of Terror: How Heroin Is Bankrolling the Taliban and al Qaeda (Hardcover) ~ Gretchen Peters Gretchen Peters (Author) I only browsed through this book. What I found most interesting is that the regions that are hardest hit with new drug addicts, the "civilians", turn out to have been unexpected in my mind at least. It turns out that the population of the countries bordering or near Afghanistan are the hardest hit, e.g., Pakistan, Iraq, etc, not the intended targets of "western infidels." Anyway, I thought you might find it interesting.
Vhehn, we are in complete agreement, drug use can destroy lives and damage society. I'm thinking though that the way the US treats drug use may be more harmful and destroy more lives than the way some other countries treat drug use. I don't know the answer, but just asking the question. If some other country is doing better than we are at this, then why not model our approach after theirs? We both know that making drug use illegal and throwing those you can catch in jail hasn't stopped drug use and hasn't stopped people from being harmed by drug use, so is there a better approach that would ideally lessen the use of illicit drugs and at least result in lower cost and less harm to society?