Drug addiction is a disease, not a moral choice. Wrong. Otherwise you'd be an addict before you even ingested the drug. I'm very, very tired of people suggesting otherwise. Groups like Alcoholics Anonymous have taken a step towards treating alcoholism as a neurological disease, and not a question of "morality" (and absurd idea). You're ultra absurd, you fucktard. Of course they are going to say that it's not their fault and that it is a disease, because the people who run AA are a bunch of pussies... and without telling them the truth... that just avoids alot of trouble but also makes it so that AA doesn't really help. Relevant studies show only genetic and psychological/neurological precursors. Statistics show alot of things... you want me to go get some Marijuana stats and post 'em here to see if you agree with any of them?

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So it is not a question of "fault" at all.
Um... yes... YES it is. It's your fault for picking up the bottle. It's not like something triggers in your brain that makes you drink.

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Well that is certainly a well thought out opinion and I agree with about 99% of what you are saying. I just get irratated when people look down on drug addicts (not saying thats what you're doing, just seemed like it), as I think its kind of like looking down on someone for having cancer. Overcoming severe drug addiction is one of the hardest things someone can do, and although I respect a recovering drug addict more than anything else, I really think they deserved to be treated as sick people and not as people who have made a mistake.

Lateralus was a great album.
No one is looking down on the addicts because of their addiction... it's the addicts that spread lies about how this and this drug really ruined my life and blah blah blah. That is what annoys the rest of us. Done and done.