poledriver
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Actually the junkies are the people suffering from a disorder called ADDICTION, which if you've ever known an addict is something you have no control over.
Actually the junkies are the people suffering from a disorder called ADDICTION, which if you've ever known an addict is something you have no control over.
Heroin dealers are not "preying on" addicts - they are helping them out.
and society says you dont matter because youre schizo.I don't feel sorry for junkies. It's not that easy to get addicted to heroin, you have to keep doing it and doing it. It's a self-imposed disease.
The junkies that DON'T go around hurting people and stealing shit, I have no problem with. I've just met a lot more who are scumbags.
I have schizophrenia. I had no choice over this. Yet I'm not going around feeling sorry for myself, I get up every day and set out to accompish what I can, even when my brain is working against me.
It's not that easy to get addicted to heroin
Money isn't as addictive as heroin tho.
Money is based on greed. Heroin addiction is based on trying to feel okay and not going into withdrawal which is hell on earth.
And sure, heroin addicts tried heroin... but everyone makes mistakes, and some people are more susceptable to addiction than others, some just have "addictive personalities".
That doesn't justify a dealer turning a profit from an illness a person has
Honestly i'm surprised so many on BL aren't being more sympathetic towards heroin addicts...
and society says you dont matter because youre schizo.
just like addicts dont matter
in fact, theres a lot of schizo people who refuse to take medication and do crazy shit, so you could argue they are like
responsible for their symptoms
But they dont get locked up nearly thr same percentage as drug addicts and they often do crazy lawbreaking dangerous violent shit.
What makes you feel this way? Most Americans agree with you and every country in the world with lower crime rates has fewer incarcerated people than America. Extreme punishment is ineffective at healing the victim of the crime, is less effective at deterring crime than humane options, and doesn't increase the likelihood of the criminal peacefully reintegrating into society. Inflicting excessive punishment upon criminals simply because the victim and observers feel the way they want about this is irrational. My opinion on this is the same regarding drug addicts and politicians.
It also produces beautiful and complex music as well.Our society produces brutal and simplistic music.
Our society also produces brutal and simplistic architecture. So whats the problem? I don't know what to call what causes this. Though history hints at a shift. Humans have made elaborate monuments marking their existence over the centuries. The temples of the isolated Mayans were elaborate and beautiful. The same is true many miles away in the Roman colloseums and the Sistine Chapel, the mosques of the middle east, and the temples of India. If you walk downtown in any major American city and look at buildings from earlier than the 1920s you'll find the same complexity and beauty. Elaborate molding, pillars, and gargoyles are prominent. Even the older railings and street lights have elaborate decorations on them. As you walk through the streets there is suddenly dramatic shifts. In the side of your sight, smashing in, you notice the iridescent greenish glare, the simplistic repeating patterns of the reflective windows on modern architecture. The newer buildings remind me of the Emerald City in the novel "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" by L Frank Baum where the Emerald City surrounded with poppies was actually bland and drab. The city only looked beautiful through the lens of the glasses locked over the viewers eyes and the wonderful wizard was as much an illusion as the magnificence of the city. Perhaps we to could be blind about the reality of our modern cities. Where did the complexity go in our architecture, in our music, in our laws? The shift in the 1920s is obvious and in the past several decades the consequences of this brutal simplicity began emerging. After what caused this shift is common knowledge our society should recover. The problems you present in your questions are symptoms NeverSickAnymore. With our brutal and simplistic world view we notice these symptoms to late. An example is mass incarceration and excessive drug crime penalties. Perhaps short term solutions are an option. I think we have to find out what the issue is and stop treading water.
I think anyone who thinks a desire for money is 'based on greed' has probably never been poor.
You can't play schizophrenics vs drug addicts because they're often the same people.