Re: freelance sysadmining -- superlong -- [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]
On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 04:04:57PM -0500, ScruLoose wrote:
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> Regarding any one drug as being just the same as any other makes no more
> sense than prescribing morphine for an infection or penicillin for a
> migraine.
Yeah, but I find it useful to concede to the anti-drug people the fact
that pot, chocolate, alcohol, and heroin only differ in degree, not
qualitatively. Face it: hard-core potheads get lazy and stupid.
Of course they're not the *same*, but it helps to counterargue exactly
what you're worried about: the slippery slope, if you go ahead and
concede that abusing any substance (pot in particular) is harmful.
The only drug I feel is qualitatively different is crack. I have seen
friends end up on the street because of it. As far as I'm concerned, if
you've done it once, I still love you but you are a totally failed and
useless human being from that point until the day you die. It just
totally fucks up your brain chemistry.
Meth is almost as bad.
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