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WHY SCIENCE IS MAKING LIFE BORING...
I’m sorry to say it, but scrolling through this category makes me a little ashamed of being a teenager.
By the looks of things, most of us are intent on gabbling on about the news that (shock-horror) smoking, drinking and drugs can shorten your life-span. As if we haven’t been told enough already. Now, I’m not advocating a life that revolves around the next fix, cig, or flagon - but let’s at least enjoy ourselves. Without these three deadly sins, where would we be?
Where would art, music and our beloved literature be without drugs? How could the artist, musician or novelist survive without the odd hasty cigarette clenched between their troubled lips? Where would the weekends of stumbling, spewing and stupidity be without the litres of white cider and mysterious mixed spirits?
If we are all as clever as we would like to think, why is it that we still torture our bodies with these fatal excesses?
The answer is fun - doing stuff for the pure hell of it - it’s supposed to be what we (teenagers) live for. Now is the time to feast on rebellion, however petty, and believe ourselves to be invincible. So why waste it preaching to the unconvertible, when there’s plenty of sensible heads on aging shoulders to do that for us?
Let’s stop patronising each other, and just enjoy surviving. After all, good health is merely the slowest rate at which we can die!
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I don't use drugs, partly because they slow me down. I'm an artist, more of scholar- correct, but drugs slow my brain down. Drinking. Ecetera. I hate being slow.
And bedsides, don't the negatives outweigh the positives? All the side effects.
And we weren't SUPPOSED to live for the sole reason of having fun.
I don't know about you, but I have stuff planned. I'm going to change things.
Call me wary, but I'm a little to protective of my life to let it be flushed away suddenly by one mistake.
When I say "bad people" and "good people" I don't mean that people who don't do drugs are angels and people who do drugs are murderers. I mean that I'd rather follow someone who resisted whatever urge they did have to try them than I would someone who tried them and can't escape them. The people who resist aren't always good people, but drugs do change behavior, even in small amounts.
I know that the drugs themselves aren't bad, like you said. But to say that science has ruined life because they found out how harmful this stuff can be? That's a bit far. Behind all this stuff is a bunch of businessmen who are making billions off this industry. They don't care about the people who use it, they don't care if the consumers get hurt from using their product. They get you to try it once and in that instance they gain a bit more control.
I will find better ways of exhilaration than smoking or getting drunk. I won't restrict others from doing it but that doesn't mean I agree with it.
Ah yes, we ignorant and naive people brutalize ourselves with alcohol and pot, becoming addicted to this way of life and promting and follow so called "bad people."
What a very informed and well backed opinion.
Most people that drink and engage in stimulants are not addicts, and lead very normal, "good" lives. Partaking in revelry of this sort does not damn you, only excessive behavior will "ruin" your life. That is with anything though, including working, athletics, or any time consuming, draining activity.
It is not drugs themselves that are "bad" it is the abuse of drugs. Obviously some drugs, the hard ones, are not to be touched for their sheer potency, but light ones, like marijuana do not have to be life ruining.
I personaly do not smoke, and have alcohol only at family events, I make this argument because i believe in the freedom and experience of life. You should not rule somthing out merely because it can turn dangerous, or it has the potential to harm you. Life must be grasped and squeezed to the fullest. Self control plays a role but let it rule you completly and it can become as hazardous as any dweadly intoxicant.
Do not live as a drone, do not let fear keep you from exhilaration. Obviously intoxicants are not the only way to live, and i am not promoting drugs as a complete safe haven, but man must be free, and stimulants and depressants, and the choice to engage in them, is part of that freedom of the human spirit.
Now, it is a commonly accepted fact that if you touch fire, it will make you uncomfortable and cause pain if not seriously burning you. We all know this, and though little kids touch fire sometimes, because they are children and don't know better until they've touched it, they will try it despite the fact that it will not benefit them.
At this day in age, you would be ignorant, if you are not nieve, to try drugs when 1. You should know that they're additive and there are few cases where it's just a "one try" scenario 2. It messes with your senses 3. It damages your health. Plain and simple.
And it shouldn't matter whether some of the most famous people who did drugs are successful. They're successful because they made a horrible mistake and somehow managed to scrape their way out of it (unlike the majority who don't) and people admired them because they went through a struggle. There are plenty of successful people who never did drugs, and there might be more of them if their spots weren't taken by drugees who got rich through their bad mistakes. Why not look up to the Good people? You have a way better chance!
