Isn’t the roll-eyes indicating kimstu’s sarcastic reference to OP’s descriptive priorities of OP’s subject?
ETA: ACK! Skypist!
Okay, I didn’t see that interpretation. Goes to show you that sarcasm doesn’t work in the Internet.
It might be interesting to consider that “taking responsibility for one’s actions” may often be a function In part of resources, circumstances, privileges, luck, and other things that aren’t within a person’s control.
Sure. Has it ever occurred to you to wonder why something like a drug might become the most important thing in a person’s life? Or you do you suppose the only explanation is that the person is worthless and unworthy of sympathy or empathy.
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I do not know her circumstances or why she chose to you drugs, but I do not consider her worthless or evil and never said I did. I am sorry that folks don’t like the fact that I have no sympathy for her. She originally chose to use drugs and after two years without drugs chose to use again two weeks prior to getting her child back. I feel sorry for the child and am happy there is a caring grandparent. Have a good friend you has her grandchild because the daughter won’t get off drugs. Fixed the daughters meth rotted teeth(I am a dentist) for her during the brief time she was clean. Got right back on drugs but I don’t think it was a waste to fix her teeth. I try to help when I can.
My sibling was a speed freak for over 20 years and sibling in law was a cocaine addict. They are both clean now and doing well. Two nephews are currently addicted to meth and getting in deeper and deeper. They will not take help.
Not addicted to anything, as previously stated, never used an illegal drug. Never tried nicotine, saw what smoking was doing to a parent and never wanted to. I drink alcohol socially, maybe a couple of times a month, not generally to excess. Don’t drink and drive as a buddy in the Army was killed but a drunk driver.
Sure I’ve done illegal stuff never said I didn’t. Yes I speed but never on a residential street, not that that make it any better. Never claimed to be a saint, I just don’t have sympathy for the lady and that seems to make a lot of people here unhappy. I guess that is just the way it is. If in your mind it makes me a bad person than so be it.
I wish I could just mark it down as a personal foible.
But a lack of empathy and sympathy among people in the world is actively making our world a worse place for everyone, and is making human lives worse. It interferes with society’s ability to address problems like addiction. So I can’t forgive it.
An addict has a monkey on es back that’s hard to shake.
What makes an unsympathetic and unempathetic person be like that? It’s less understandable and in my view less forgivable than being an addict.
I can map everything Oakminster said to another young woman I know. A great big wonderful life in front of her, but she got on meth, lost a couple of kids, tried the this is what causes relapses bullshit in court, alienated practically all of her family. She says she’s clean now.
I hope so. Because, despite the meth, she’s still special.
Sorry about your acquaintance, Oak. Hope she pulls it together.
I will assume this is directed at me. If not, my apologies.
I believe I would probably have had sympathy for the lady at one time. I believe most people(see below) are entitled to make mistakes, we all do.
So a bit of a subject change and truly I am not trying to be snarky. Do you believe that having empathy and sympathy for our fellow man is an absolute or is it relative. Should we all have empathy and sympathy for the likes of Jeffery Dahmer and Adolph Hitler or are there crimes such that it is okay to not have sympathy for them. I have no sympathy for them but I don’t think that contributes to making the lives of everyone worse. If it is a relative feeling, is it an individual decision or a societal one?
As a stupid little boy.
I can’t help thinking of this song, and so I’ll just share it.
Do I need to explain this one?
The candle on the clock is burning up one’s time using speed (arguably). One can’t sleep and doesn’t miss it on speed, so I’ve heard at least.
In my observation it is a rough drug, one might as well be setting themselves on fire smoking it. Careful not to choke!
The stupid little girl is in the pit with her head on a spit. An example of what not to do.
Maybe there is no such thing, but sometimes it does seem as if, no?