kappa: An addict is a world away from someone with medical trauma or a degenerative desease... The difference is choice...
There is not enough difference to call it "a world away". The internal workings of the brain are damaged. It does not matter whether they are damaged on physical, chemical, physioligical or informational level. What seems easy to one person is impossible to another.
A guy once got his brain punctured with an iron rod. He survived and retained most of his faculties but from an agreable polite person he turned into a very rude one. It seems that a person should have no problem not being rude but we know it's not the case.
The addict has a choice, the medical patient does not...
The voluntary addict often has only one choice - whether to start. Maybe even to quit while he is not totally addicted. A medical patient with terrible neurological pains and assurances that most people do not get addicted to his medicine may find only in a few months that he became addicted.
Sure there are very addictive drugs legal and non-legal, but addiction is a choice.... If it were not, there would never be a recovering heroin or crack addict..
The most addictive drugs are not addictive equally to all people and the least addictive drugs like alcohol or tobacco are impossible to quit to some people. People differ a lot. Even change with age.
At some point he had to know and mentally understand he was becoming an addict even if it was by him going and having to find other doctors (illegally mind you) to write a prescription...
Sure. When he stopped taking the medicine after a few months. But once the withdrawal hits, it is so excruciatingly unbearable that the whole worldview changes drastically. For a person who is seriously wishing to die, the importance of abiding by some silly law or some previous statement suddenly diminishes compared to the other things. Besides, his act was a truly "victimles" crime - he was not robbing people to get money for drugs. He was not endangering others by operating machinery while fased out, etc.
Just becasue he got his drugs from a doctor, doesnt make it right or moral...
There is no moral component to an action where a person does not have a choice or his mind is altered.
I am all for putting dangerous drug addicts out of their misery - preferably by supplying them with all the drugs they need to OD themselves, but by other means if necessary. But I draw the line on punishing people who do not pose any danger just pur discourage des autres. That is very wrong and immoral.
Happy New Year to you too!
capt. apathy: no but at some point he made a decission to go from user to abuser.
Apparenty he never took more than just to feel well. He was never noticed to be giddy, "high", etc.
...did he go to the doctor and say he needed help? No, he just obtained them illegaly.
That's why they are called "mind altering drugs". You, guys are incredibly lucky you have no idea what it is. People waste and die or even watch their families suffer and die under the influence of addiction and cannot do anything about it. The first thing the addiction takes is will.
You may use whatever expletives you want and stomp on those who are down but it is a known medical fact how the addiction changes personality, whether voluntarily or not.
Nakhui: when the news came out he was buying his drugs illegally.... his mind altered again and be decide to take responsibility for his actions and seek rehab. Or is that the guilt drug taking effect?
Obviously I cannot know what was happening in his head but it is a common with such people - they would not be able to stop or ask for help, but once faced with changing their behavior by an outside conditions, they are glad they were found out.
It's a matter of will and an outside will or necessity is a good support for the lack of one's own will.
I did not have much experience with narcotics but I've saw quite a few people who's mind was altered by incredible deprivvation, stress and lack of sleep. I was like that myself.
People do things they would never theough they were cabable of - including incredibly evil theings. They would not stop on their own. Then the conditins change, they get limited in their actions and if they do not get in trouble right away, their mind returns back to normal. They can remember what they did but not able to imagine what they felt.
Some though get addicted to violence and cruelty just like other get addicted to drugs.
Saurdaukar: Kappa - are you being paid to dig up dirt on people that dont effect you in the slightest?
Whatever I think of his statements and methods, the man is certainly a great talent and has a lot of influence. Which he uses to propagate socialism and big totalitarian government while pretending to oppose liberals who support the same ideals.
Saying that Rush does not affect kappa in the slightest is like saying to a russian in 1905 that Plechanov and Martov did not affect him in the slightest. Sure, those were just popular harmless theoreticians and publicists. But they affected the opinion of many people in certain ways and lo and behold - Lenin came to power in 1917 and then Stalin.
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