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FAO: Drug Users | MESSAGE: Please boycott foreign drugs or overdose already. Thanks! (pg. 17)
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| Lira |
| Wait, all right. Seriously now, what do you think I'm arguing for? We're clearly having some sort of misunderstanding here. |
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| stren |
| Living in Europe I doubt drugs I use come from mexico. I grow my own drugs. |
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| Halcyon+On+On |
You're espousing that people ought to not buy drugs that originated from South America.
But...
1. Nobody knows where their drugs come from. Nobody asks, because frankly, nobody ing wants to know. In fact, the very notion of knowing their origin is why most everyone questions what you really know about the matter and thinks your proposition is extremely naive.
Can you imagine asking? Do it. Pretend you're buying cocaine from someone who is not your friend. What would you say? I really want to hear this.
2. Even if someone personally abstained from purchasing a substance because they think it will cut down on crime (haaa), what happens? The product goes away, right? The demand dissipates because of your personal objections. Everyone stops buying and selling because some cop got beheaded 10,000 miles away. Drug dealers just throw that away. You're a ing cartoon if you believe this.
Drugs aren't like grocery store milk. There are no 'unsold drugs'. There are only drugs that someone hasn't paid to use yet.
3. Abstinence is not an effective deterrent for human behaviour. Abstinence is not an effective deterrent for human behaviour. Abstinence is not an effective deterrent for human behaviour. Abstinence is not an effective deterrent for human behaviour. Abstinence is not an effective deterrent for human behaviour.
4. Decriminalization of substances is the only way to change anything. I know we both agree on this, but this does not happen overnight, or even overdecade. Blaming people who purchase drugs (and nobody buys drugs FROM cartels, yo) *is* shaming them for their behaviour, so you're going to have to accept that people accuse you right back for being anti-drug and anti-user. I know you think that you save face by saying that you have no problem with people who only buy locally grown/manufactured or something, but that's simply not the climate that an overwhelming majority of illegal drug users can brook, casual or otherwise. For starters, the current penalties greatly delineate between recreational users and intentional distributors. If you get caught making drugs, you are absolutely ed. ed to the point where you could probably stomach the loss of some brown people you never knew in the first place rather than rot in prison, yourself. It's not a difficult decision for people to make.
5. Don't go chasing waterfalls, please stick to the rivers and the lakes that you're used to. |
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| rdevito |
As far as i agree with Lira, i think the problem is much deeper than just people buying drugs. The problem lies on a very basic and at the same time, the most important value of a nation: Education. There are thousands of hundreds stories like this here in Brazil:
Poor boy, living in some favela, don't have a good education because he can't pay for a private school and his only alternative are the public schools. Public schools here in Brazil are -most of them- utterly , without any kind of basic structure. Therefore, the kid won't have a chance of a good job. Wich means he will be poor for the rest of his life. One day, the poor kid looking for a job starts to see one of his friends with a new watch and new shoes, so he asks: "Whoa, dude! Pretty cool! Where did you get these Nike shoes?", his friend: "I'm one the aviãozinhos (like a messenger) of the traffic boss here! He is treating me very well! He told me he needs another aviãozinho. Could be you, if you want. He will also give me a gun and teach me how to shoot! How about that, hun?"
And there you go, another good guy lost to the traffic because he simply has no chance to succeed in life. Another criminal, murderer, drug dealer was born. Like every single day, just because our politicians are ing corrupts s and don't invest in Education.
Crap education + corrupted politicians + people buying drugs = uncontrollable situation.
I believe the same thing is happening in Mexico, El Salvador, Honduras, Colombia, Guatemala.....there's no education, politicians don't give a crap, no quality of life, you have no alternatives...Now you will say: "Of course there's another alternative: sports!". Again, you will end at the Education problem. Sports must be introduced in schools, specially public schools. Well, already told you how public schools are.
Education is the only solution. Thanks for reading. |
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| srussell0018 |
| My friend used to get ounces of coke that were broken right off the brick that you could see the Peruvian seal stamped on. :o |
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| Halcyon+On+On |
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| srussell0018 |
| That's the one. |
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| Looney4Clooney |
| this is sharing similar territory as porn and prostitution. Except asking an addict to stop taking drugs is rather funny. Of all the reasons to get clean, pretty sure that isn't going to be the one. |
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| Chimney |
| Why do always countries with severe drug-transit issues have the most beautiful women? I once saw a chick from Honduras at a party in 2007. Never got over it. Extremely beautiful. |
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| itsamemario |
| FAO: Brazilians | MESSAGE: Stop being so ing poor. Fags! |
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| theCheif |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lira
As the regular posters here probably know, there are very few topics I take seriously but, when I do, I usually bomb the screen with walls of text, sources, and html codes. Also, I'm far from being an intolerant person, having argued for the liberty of all kinds of nutters. In this thread, I want to try a somewhat different approach: because of the consequences involved in this kind of activity, it'd be downright immoral to be tolerant. And I want to make it brief.
It doesn't matter right now if the war on drugs is misguided or wrong. It exists and, as far as we're all concerned, it must either be repelled through legal action or obeyed. If you really need drugs and want to find a moral loophole, make sure you can either manipulate the necessary substances/plants and make your own narcotics, or buy homegrown if you absolutely know no other crimes are being committed. However, if you buy drugs of unknown origin, I'd like to politely ask you to stop it. Otherwise, if you really need drugs, please overdose.
You may live in comfortable communities where your actions have little if any impact, but the drugs may well have come from some other place. And you're very likely responsible in a way or another for drug-related crime in Mexico: do you really think the routes reaching the borders are a coincidence?
As someone who lives in a developing country, I can assure you that we do not have the means to revert this situation. Poverty is tough enough a problem for us to tackle, and it's already a good source of problems and criminality. If you sponsor these criminals through the acquisitions of the goods they sell, you're only making it harder for us to solve this problem. I've had loved ones kidnapped by drug pushers looking for money, and they have become all too powerful due to their profitable activities.
I'm doing all I can to raise awareness where I live because the situation here is not much better than what's going on in Mexico. However, the world is now flatter than ever, and this is probably a hopeless attempt to do something abroad. But, I'm trying, and I beg you: if you want to do drugs, do the right thing - either do it responsibly or just end yourself because no upstanding citizen deserves to pay for your mindless actions :)
CORe version: If you do drugs, please see the traffic routes in the map above. Other people may be dying so you can get high and, if that's the case, I warmly ask you to end yourself before you do any further damage. Oh, and I ing hate you for that :gsmile: |
As a former heroin addict thanks for wisĥing me dead. To bad it doesn't work that way though. Big monied people smuggle drugs and don't give a for you or me. They're the people who lobby hard for prohibition so blaming addicts isn't solving one ing thing except making room for new addicts and poverty is here too. I'm writing this from a homeless shelter in Ohio where 65 people every night are turned out to the cold because we're at maximum capacity. You want someone to blame? Blame the.people who lobby governments to perpetuate this biggest crime of history. |
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| Lira |
I understand your point, Cheif, and I know I wasn't exactly polite in my original post. I apologise for offending you. I needed, however, the shock value, because I believe this message is very important, and this has got to be one of the most popular threads I've ever posted (despite the fact the shock value seems to have created quite a backlash).
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Oh, but I do agree with you on that as well. The reason why I didn't mention education is because that's a problem we need to sort out ourselves. It's appalling how low education levels can be here in Brazil, to the point we need to import qualified workers (such as enginers).
| quote: | Originally posted by Looney4Clooney
this is sharing similar territory as porn and prostitution. Except asking an addict to stop taking drugs is rather funny. Of all the reasons to get clean, pretty sure that isn't going to be the one. |
But I'm not saying that. If I were to mention prostitution, it would be something like "please refrain from paying for sex with women forced into prostitution by coercive means", such as foreign women who are smuggled into an unknown country where they can't easily escape (although this can happen in their own country as well). |
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