Yep, it is selfish. And like I also said it is all generality. There are ALWAYS exceptions when you speak in generality. But at what point do we put the onus back on the individual to accept responsibility for all of their actions that they do to themselves? If you have an answer then tell me.
And since you brought up the bath salts at the Gas station with the 14 year olds. Who made them do it? Did they just decide that it would be cool to do? Or were they pressured into it? It becomes in my mind a case of personal decision or someone else causing the damage to the 14 year old by convincing them to ‘try it’.
And before you go to far. I have lost my oldest son to the consequences of using drugs. It was his own choice to use them. And on his death bed as I held before he died he cried and told me that he wished he could do it over again and listen to me and my advice to him.
I hate and utterly despise drug misuse. And with that being said I hate even more the way that the ‘war on drugs’ has been used to control the populace. So are we going to control everything and only let the people have the use of it when ‘authority’ says we can.
What if tomorrow it comes out that by modifying a game controller you can give yourself a “high’ or ‘orgasms’. Are we going to outlaw video game controllers or even the use of electricity. At what point does it stop?
What if it is found out that a program was created that displays a set of patterns on your PC that would give you a instantly addictive high. Are we going to outlaw PC’s?
At what point does it stop?