- Joined
- Mar 24, 2013
I'd have absolutely no problem with druggies if they kept it to themselves and only destroyed themselves, but 9 times out of 10, they make it everyone else's problem.
It pisses me off when someone gives a Reddit take, like "buh, but it's a DISEASE! It's not their fault, they don't know what they're doing!!", acting like moral paragons because they're "empathetic" while judging the people whose lives were destroyed because someone close to them did the most retarded thing possible and smoked a crack rock.
I have addicts in my family and it's hell, addicts are almost always whiny, entitled backstabbers. They'll cry about some "trauma" (we all have it, retard) and proceed to steal from you without taking any responsibility. Rinse and repeat.
People like to act as if addicts are innocent souls possessed by a demon, without any agency whatsoever, but I've been in that situation, recognised I was in the bottom of a hole because I was a fucking moron, accepted it was my responsibility to crawl out of it, and did so.
As a recovering addict who will be ten years clean next month, the "But it's a disease, bro!" argument pisses me off to no end. No, addiction is not a disease. You don't become an addict because someone sneezed on you. You don't wake up one morning and start shooting Horse into your veins or drinking to fight off the DTs because someone coughed near you a few days ago and didn't cover their mouth. Addiction is a weakness and a character flaw, but ultimately it's a choice. No one held a gun to someone's head and told them that if they don't start popping Oxy then they will pull the trigger. No one ever got strapped down by someone, had a funnel jammed in their mouth, and were forced to start guzzling booze. At some point the addict decided to start using an addictive substance and became addicted. Calling addiction a disease removes all accountability and responsibility from an addict becoming an addict. It makes them a victim instead of the responsible party. I didn't get clean by playing the victim. Playing the victim is what drove me to addiction and removed control over my life.