Posted on 02/06/2014 5:33:55 PM PST by grundle
New York Police officers arrested four men Tuesday night on suspicion of having a connection to drugs. Police acted after receiving a tip that the four had sold heroin to actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, who was found dead from an overdose of the drug on February 2.
Drug dealers are far from my favorite people, and the arrests are welcome, but no drug dealer killed Philip Hoffman. Only one person is, ultimately, responsible for his death: Philip Seymour Hoffman, himself.
Mr. Hoffman was the one who procured the drug, injected the drug and kept injecting the drug. Mr. Hoffman was the one who risked leaving his girlfriend to deal with her grief and leaving their children, ages 10, 7 and 5, to deal with theirs.
No genetic anomaly can make a person text a dealer, withdraw a stack of bills from an ATM, pick up a supply of 70 bags of heroin, tie a tourniquet around his arm and inject the stuff into his vein.
No quirk of neurochemistry can make you rate getting high as more important than getting your kids through life. Only a disorder of character can do that.
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It matters more because he was possibly the best at what he did of any American of his generation.
The drug & death dealers should be put away for a very long time
The best at.... something totally useless
That was a fast response!
lol
Are musicians useless too then? People who interpret what others wrote.
download speed is 39+mbps right now
Oh please give it a rest
Are you on hire by LA LA land to defend their every scandal here on this forum
Seriously....you’re a one note johnny
Hoffman was what....the best 40 something year old character actor alive before last week?
Wow...
He loved H apparently more than acting or his kids
I know creative people.... was in a relationship with one
They tend to be self obsessed and somewhat neurotic and when successful utterly catered too
They play make believe and we watch...its more benign than bull baiting....but today likely more destructive and the catalyst to our negative diffusion
I feel for his kids....but less than I do for my 11 year old sons friend who has been an overnight guest and whose mom died in his arms from the flu last week.....Franklin TN....I don’t crap up like so many here
There are lots worse tragedies son than H head over banging....20 packets....just cause he acts for a living
I do confess I like when I agree with one...its like a unicorn....
And I miss Leno.....a polite fair liberal
Fallon and Letterman....two turds in same punch bowl.
I’m not defending H who is responsible for his own death. I was explaining why his death has gsnerated so much sorrow. He was possibly the best actor of the Gen X generation.
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