in b4 "lol your catholic schoolgirl is showing"

[elementalhero]

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.

Comments

[okroginator.livejournal.com]

I didn't mean to imply that the issue was black and white - you're right, there is a lot of gray. My beef was with the people who were shouting down those who spoke up and said, "I don't think it's funny/edgy/cool that you were doing drugs while performing mod duties," because apparently THAT MAKES YOU A NAIVE STUPID BITCH. And yeah, the criminalization of addiction is a terrible thing.

[venombites.livejournal.com]

I understand what you are saying a bit more. A mod should not, in all honesty, probably be doing drugs or admit to being on drugs while performing their duties. It doesn't make you a naive or stupid bitch but a practical one; a mod, again, probably should not be on drugs because their judgment could be compromised particularly if the comm is very likely to erupt in wank/discussion/very passionate arguments/etc. I think the important things is that people are treating this mod as subhuman for the fact that he or she has admitted to doing drugs, even if it is on occasionally and not an addiction, because that isn't right.

lmfao upon rereading my original comment i feel like a huge dick ;;;