The strange part is that people who take drugs want to express the experience with their illegal, immoral, and otherwise shifty behavior.
If you were to, say, rape someone, would you go around yakking about it? Probably not no matter how trippy the experience was, even if it made Radiohead sound really fantastic.
It's not something that comes up in conversation. "Yeah, that last time I stole a car it was like, whoa."
Just never made sense to me.--------------------------------- "You bring the weasel, I'll bring the whiskey." - kellnerin
I was at this party once with this guy who was prone to committing armed robbery. The other people are the party were mainly similar sorts of people (albeit not to this degree). Sure enough, a few hours in the stories came out, done in the same over the top casually absurd style that drug stories come in. (And I am not innocent of this myself, of course.)
It's not that armed robbery was thought to be a good thing by the people there, or even that it wasn't thought to be a bad thing: I'm sure that, were they sober and asked about, and given time to think about it, they would all agree that the world would be better without armed robberies. But armed robbery was something that happened from time to time in a person's life (because they needed to; because had made bad decisions; because they were drunk) and it wasn't something you were judged on. The attitude was a morally neutral one, although in this case (unlike drugs, I think) not because the listeners of these stories honestly thought armed robbery a neutral act, but because they did not earnestly apply moral reasoning to it at all. Armed robbery just happened, the thinking went, and man, it sure could lead to some surreal situations.
Unusual, seemingly rebellious experiences make us seem interesting (often more interesting than we are), and drugs provide a vehicle for them without (in the eyes of most) being guilty of serious moral wrongdoing of any real caliber. This despite these experiences being, given any serious thought, shallow and insubstantial.
Or so it seems to me. "What woman wouldn't love a guy in WW2 aviator glasses eating their ass?" -- dest[ Parent ]
Is that the person doing the drugs has their mood and perceptions altered so that they cannot see the harm that they are doing to everyone else in their life, nor the damage to their brain and body either. Be it illicit drugs, or legal ones like alcohol and tobacco, there are always side-effects that harm the user and the people in their lives. Some of the side-effects are changes in the behavior of the drug user that causes them to become mean to others or just not care about others anymore. Most of the time it is emotional or psychological abuse by the drug user on their friends, family, and co-workers, or their friends, family, or co-workers have to clean up the messes the drug user makes. For co-workers it means they have to work harder to cover for the drug-users at their job, who messed things up because they couldn't think clearly enough to do their job correctly. Of course the drug user doesn't see any of this and claims there are no side-effects and they didn't harm anyone, and often play the victim when others confront them about what the drug-user did to them to cause them to suffer.[ Parent ]
The first being to notice this was Satan, everyone else is just a Satan copycat. Just saying is all.[ Parent ]
