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elementalhero) wrote2010-07-21 02:04 am
elementalhero) wrote2010-07-21 02:04 am
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in b4 "lol your catholic schoolgirl is showing"
So I was on today's RP!S, and there was a secret about someone doing coke. It could have been true, or a troll secret, or whatever. But I found myself really disturbed by several replies. A lot of people replied condemning drug use, which is what I would have replied with if I weren't too chickenshit to reply to anything in rp!s (lol). But then a lot of people replied to those people to tell them to "stop being so judgmental" and that they were naive and stupid for saying "omg drugs are bad" because apparently, thinking that abuse of dangerous, illegal drugs like cocaine makes one a naive, stupid person.
I came away from that page disturbed and angered, mostly by a lot of people's cavalier attitude. I mean, I didn't reply after I read the secret because I was too busy rolling my eyes and thinking what idiots some people are, but it disturbed me that a lot of people seemed to condone illegal drug use because "it's a life decision" and something about "human experience" or whatever and just. no.
Drugs are bad. They aren't funny. They ruin lives. Not just the health of the people taking them, for whatever reasons, but the people involved in the actual drug selling process. People in Third World countries die every day for every gram of coke/heroin/whatever that rich suburban college kids buy and snort/smoke/inject for shits and giggles.
It's one thing to be on drugs and be out on the streets, with no other option, or in a dangerous business where that kind of thing is done. Honestly? I feel terribly over every memoir I read of people who made it out of the inner city and battled addictions to all kinds of substances, people who were depressed or felt they had no option. But affluent people doing drugs recreationally? For fun? Illegal, damaging, addictive drugs? That people die for? Even pot, which seems so harmless - pot, which funds the black market in all kinds of ways, the black market that also specializes in prostitution, human trafficking, other drugs, general life-ruining? Those people? I have no fucking sympathy for them. And to see people laugh something like that off and cast aspersions on people who try to speak up about the, you know, illegality of such actions? Fuck them.
I am probably betraying my inner sheltered white girl, and if so, please, speak up and tell me where I have spoken wrongly or insensitively.
I came away from that page disturbed and angered, mostly by a lot of people's cavalier attitude. I mean, I didn't reply after I read the secret because I was too busy rolling my eyes and thinking what idiots some people are, but it disturbed me that a lot of people seemed to condone illegal drug use because "it's a life decision" and something about "human experience" or whatever and just. no.
Drugs are bad. They aren't funny. They ruin lives. Not just the health of the people taking them, for whatever reasons, but the people involved in the actual drug selling process. People in Third World countries die every day for every gram of coke/heroin/whatever that rich suburban college kids buy and snort/smoke/inject for shits and giggles.
It's one thing to be on drugs and be out on the streets, with no other option, or in a dangerous business where that kind of thing is done. Honestly? I feel terribly over every memoir I read of people who made it out of the inner city and battled addictions to all kinds of substances, people who were depressed or felt they had no option. But affluent people doing drugs recreationally? For fun? Illegal, damaging, addictive drugs? That people die for? Even pot, which seems so harmless - pot, which funds the black market in all kinds of ways, the black market that also specializes in prostitution, human trafficking, other drugs, general life-ruining? Those people? I have no fucking sympathy for them. And to see people laugh something like that off and cast aspersions on people who try to speak up about the, you know, illegality of such actions? Fuck them.
I am probably betraying my inner sheltered white girl, and if so, please, speak up and tell me where I have spoken wrongly or insensitively.
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Those comments kind of reinforced the reason I always have been, and always will be, wary of people who advocate for more lenient drug policies. Do I agree with some of their principals? Absolutely. (Marijuana being a Schedule 1 narcotic is the stupidest fucking thing, the way we prosecute drug cases punishes the victims more often than not, etc.) But--and I do realize that this is most likely due to over exposure to people who are the bad face of this movement, but--everyone I've ever met who gets really up in arms about how strict drug policies are end up engaging in this self-serving, masturbatory dialogue about how drugs are made out to be SO MUCH WORSE than they are, how dare you harsh my high.
Particularly with cocaine. Well, again this is probably personal experience because it's largely a rich white person drug and I grew up in a rich area, where people whined about how cocaine being illegal was UNFAIR in the same way that they whined about the fact that their daddy bought them a Mercedes for their 16th birthday, instead of the BMW they wanted. The entitlement these people feel really, really bothers me.
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