How come addicts get so much sympathy? Is being a selfish asshole really an "illness"?

I think the moment you decided to try drugs, you are intentionally sabotaging your body. You took the risk upon yourself.

Because not everybody lives cookie cutter lives in a country "founded" on freedom of choice. These are all arguments from people who have obviously never been in any social scenarios in which drugs are abundant, so why even argue?

No, I don't care about those already addicted. I'm talking about those that never touch it in the first place, I don't and never had the urge the try. So why do people try in the first place?

What? So there are social events where it's better to succumb to drugs? I don't see how there will be unless there's a gun pointing directly at your head telling you to do drugs.

A number of different reasons, abuse, childhood trauma, depression. Addiction runs deeper than wanting to get high and that’s what people don’t understand. Using drugs is a symptom of something that is happening deep inside. People who stay clean address this and never have to use drugs again

Ah, if that's the case I understand. What I don't get is why Kyle that got addicted because he tried it for shits and giggles so we got to applaud him for his determination after he become sober.

Yeah, they're called drug houses you obvious suburban prick. People come in, shoot dope, stay high and leave. But if you're not coming in to buy or get high best believe the owner is getting sketched out, so he's GOING to get aggravated and ask you to get the fuck out, most likely with a stolen firearm. People GROW UP in these houses.

So yes, Chad. That shit happens

And it doesn't even have to be that exact scenario. People who grow up around drugs and see it as normal behavior are ofc going to seed their way into that lifestyle. This is one of those topics where if you don't have first or even second-hand experience, just shut the fuck up and let the druggies do what they want. If it kills them, whatever. Darwinism

Getting clean isn’t easy. Also addicts who get clean are typically great people. In order to stay clean you have to do the opposite behaviors of what you did in addiction. So to stay clean you can’t be a piece of shit anymore

They can do what they want, not trying to stop them. I'm just here trying to understand what's so brave in them quitting what they led themselves into.

addicted piece of shit, addicted fucking garbage, you will learn your place beneath the audacity of a true man. A sober man.

Know that even the lowliest of the sober man is greater than your greatest addicted prodigy. A dick numbering 12 inches or more you cannot compete and while you laugh yourself giddy in denial revel in knowing that every single day while you go to work a real man, a sober man, is destroying your gf or wife in your house and on your bed and she will never tell you because she craves what you cannot offer.

There is nothing you can do about it. An untamable beast of pure masculinity in comparison to you, you shrivel in cowardice behind your computer screen. Never in your sorry pathetic addicted-guilted life will you ever call one of us a "druggie" to our faces because you know that you would not escape retribution.

Claim your superiority with your drugs all you want because deep down you know that its a fall-back to mask your incompetence and insecurity over having become worthless in the eyes of those greater than you. Try as you will reality cannot and will not be prevented by the likes of you.

You are the minority. We are the majority. We are lord and master - judge and jury. You will not escape, you will be bred out of existence and your children just as your women will bow to us.