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I understand all you are saying, but I don't think you understand what I'm saying. You don't even need to be that high. I'm saying that, from personal experience with myself and my friends, when high people (excluding drunks) tell you they are high, they are just warning you and letting you be aware of it. I would tell people, "I'm so high right now", just so they wouldn't think I was thinking/saying weird things and laughing over nothing. I didn't say it to 'be cool' but just to let people know, because then they know what level I am on and can understand me better and where I'm coming from. You don't have experience with this, you don't why people say they are high, but they aren't trying to be cool dickheads. They just want to throw it out there, because for some weird reason, for me and my friends anyways, it made me more comfortable knowing everyone is okay with us being high. I seriously think you have their motives in the wrong place. People don't get high, then get on LoL to show off how high they are. They play League to have a good time.
If you are out to battle the worlds problems, like drinking and driving, abusive drunk fathers, drunk date rapists, and junkies, these are not the stoners. They are alcoholics. So I think you may be placing a blanket of blame around it as a whole, when it isn't that way. And, for the record, smoking weed doesn't make kill your family. That is a blatant false lie, a type of fear mongering spread here in the US in the 1940s, and they also tied racism to weed. The propaganda stated it would make you kill your family and make black men think they had a right to white women. If you want to believe that kind of bullshit, I don't know what is wrong with you.
In my time playing League, I've seen high people mention they were high, laugh at it, and they stop talking about it. Seriously, just because they mention it once doesn't mean I'm going to be rude to them for it. Yeah, for some people, they should stop. But for most people, it's not really a problem in their lives. And I'm not one to sit behind my computer and judge whether they are ruining their life, and respond arrogantly with "do you think that being high(or drunk) as fuck and playing games is cool? nobody cares". I laugh it off and take that into consideration when I play and hope for the best.
PSA: In Korea, you could replace all you said with online gaming, fucking League of Legends and Starcraft, and whatever else they play. They neglect and abuse their families over video games. They lose their homes over video games. They lose their jobs over League of fucking Legends. So let's fucking boycott this abusive and demonic game, one of many they play over there, because it ruins so many lives. Like those parents whose baby starved to death because they neglected it so much while taking care of an online baby. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/mar/05/korean-girl-starved-online-game Or the deadbeat dad who was so addicted to online games he couldn't keep a job, and let his 2 year old starve to death while his wife was out of town working at a factory. http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/south-korea-video-game-addict-3420338 The teen who was crazy high on Halo 3 and murdered his mom and shot his dad, the 13 year Chinese boy who murdered an 81 year old for money to play a video game, and the guy who murdered another guy who gave away a sword in his online game. http://listverse.com/2010/11/07/top-10-cases-of-extreme-game-addiction/ I think people who think playing video games are cool, and say they are cool, are perpetuating this abusive and addictive demonization. It's not all about having fun, it's a serious problem, 10% of people in Korea are addicted to video games! And therefore, I should judge everyone who plays video games as being in this addicted portion of the gamer world, and treat them dickheads for it.
Why did you you insist on generalizing what I say? I specificaly differenciated my points for that exact reason. I SPECIFICALY differenciated between my points, and I NEVER and I repeat NEVER mentioned nor even implied tried or whatever that I'm here to battle the worlds problems. I intentionally mentioned what I did to make myself more clear. I don't give a fuck about the world because the world will never give a fuck about me, I believe in taking responsibility in one's choices since you made them yourself.
A blanket of blame around the whole?! I SPECIFICALY mentioned and differenciated between drunks and stonets/junkies and what they cause to themselves and those around them. I never said burn the stoners and the junkies alike, because they get high, I never said drunks should be executed and shit(overexaggeration but you get my point).
What do you know about my beliefs, and what do they have to do with USA history? I don't know about fear mongering and whatever they did with black men having rights to white women or whatever. You can't expect me to know same way I'm not expecting you to know about my country's history. Nor weed's history and culture in general, since I'm not familiar with it at all. I don't talk about that.
Weed doesn't make you kill your family. I never said it does. I said I know people that WEED almost made them destroy THEMSELVES, I said I know people ALCOHOL almost made them destroy themselves. Just because weed is not the same as drugs thus junkies =/= stoners doesn't mean weed can't ruin your life. Abuse of EVERY SINGLE SUBSTANCE can harm you. Hell you can die from WATER INTOXICATION. WATER, not freaken weed, WATER. That's why there exist the concept of MODERATION, so you can enjoy yourself without going overboard and potentialy harming yourself and others. Let's say I decide to get high; will I turn to that russian drug that destroyes your skin? Would you? Isn't that going overboard and harming yourself? No, you smoke weed instead or try something alternative. Drug addicts have done horrible things to themselves and people around them. Maybe not the junky that lives in my neighborhood, but the junky that killed her husband is. You get my point? However, you can go overboard all you want as long as you think about people around you.
Because I don't directly experience those things, it doesn't mean I don't have the right and form my own personal opinion. I believe to be myself a smart individual with an open mind, that's why I specificaly DIFFERENCIATED my points and gave SPECIFIC examples and didn't throw everything into the pot. I will mention time and again, boasting about what substance you abuse is to me personally NOT COOL AND RESPECTFULL TO OTHERS AT ALL. I believe in your right to excersise substance abuse. It's your freaking birth right, but not your privilege, you don't get to wave it into my face. I could possibly like doing the helicopter dick, you don't see me going to playgrounds to do it. Instead I do it in my bathroom. Why? Because I do it for myself while being respectfull to the fact that others might not want to look at a dude doing the helicopter dick in the middle of the street. You don't get to judge me the same way I don't judge you. Who the hell do you think you are?
You took it personal and kinda lost yourself in the moment? Fine.
You and your friends. Have you met every single stoner on the planet? How can you then generalize and speak for everyone? Because you and your friends were thinking that way? I can guarantee you there are people that think being high as fuck from weed is cool, and some of the play LoL, and some of them boast about it in chat, and I've ran into some of them. Does that mean everyone does so? Do you think I'm fucking retarted? Do you think I'm a 13 year old teenage keyboard warrior? Ofcourse not everyone's the same. That's would be the stupidest thing to say and think. That doesn't instantly make every stoner a narcissistic dumbass that feels the need to satisfy his lack of attention via LoL in game chat and whatnot. I told you I've personally met STONERS that were really good people, one of them was a very-very good friend of mine back in senior high-school. I also knew a girl that weed almost made her lose herself and destroy her future. WEED, not drugs. My cousin almost destroyed his life from WEED and ALCOHOL. It DOES happen wether you like it or not. That doesn't instantly demonize weed, it's god damn substance abuse that's a whole different matter that needs to be adressed, but we're not the ones to do it in a LoL thread. Same goes for alcohol, there've been times when I'd drink a glass of a soft drink a day. At the moment I haven't drank for 2 months.
I also used to drink energy drinks, I'm talking about 1-2 every single damn day. Eventually my stomach started to hurt and I felt sick for days. I stopped. You know why? Because I took something I enjoyed and loved, and abused it so much it backfired at me. Perhaps 1 energy drink once a week or maybe 5 days would be enough, but I took it steps further and payed for it(thankfully not severly). That doesn't mean energy drinks should be banned from the planet. That's irresponsible and arrogant. Perhaps I should've known, no, it was my responsibility to know, that drinking something like an energy drink so freaking frequently WILL harm me.
"Respond arrogantly?" The fuck? Don't I have the right to express myself? It's not like I told them to commit suicide or that they are lifeless shame of human beings junkies for crying out loud. Do you seriously think think that's arrogant? Come on, we live on the same planet, right? We both know what real arrogance is like, and it doesn't lie in my distaste for this particular act. But that's your own personal opinion, as responding the way I do is mine.
Also, that part about videogames, come on, seriously now? Now you're just being cynical. On a sidenote, those seem pretty interesting articles to read, I've bookmarked them all and will read them, you've picked my curiosity and I'd like to enlighten myself.