| tinybear;
You obviously have no concept of Personal Responsibility, or of how truly shitty people can be towards each other. Someone CHOSE to take the drug; nobody held them down and poured it down their throat or blew it up their nose. Likewise, the majority of child-abuse and neglect cases in this country don't involve illegal drugs; they are frequently related to perfectly-legal alchohol, according to the FBI Uniform Crime Survey. Drug-addiction is the result of a CHOICE to take the drug.
Look up the famous case of Robbie Wayne, if you want to see how people can abuse their own kids without drugs being involved. Look up the dozen-or-so cases of "cage kids" that turn up every year in the US. If you can stomach it, read about the infanticides in Russia, where the Spring Thaw every year reveals thousands of babies who'd been abandoned in the snow to die because their parents either didn't want them or couldn't afford them. Drugs are not the problem; EVIL is the problem, TB.
Nothing "made" people shitty parents, they made a conscious decision to be shitty parents. Nobody "made" Driver X kill that family: he made the conscious decision to drive while impaired. The PEOPLE are to blame, not the substance. This is typical of the Statist mindset, which posits that the Individual is irrelevant and incapable of either affecting their life either for good or ill: everything ( to a Statist ) is controlled by some outside force over which the individual exerts no control and before which the Individual is powerless: the drugs MADE them shitty parents, the gun MADE him kill his wife, the booze MADE her drive drunk, poverty MADE him beat people up for fun. |