Thank you. I try to be as honest as possible in life, in my words and my actions. My integrity means a lot to me.
Here is how I make my judgement on this particular situation.
First off, we are NOT all deserving in some form or fashion. DESERVING sounds too much like ENTITLED. No one is deserving or entitled to anything. Since life is what you make of it, we are all where we have led our lives to be.
This doesn’t count if you were born to a rich family because that falls under OPPORTUNITY. Some of us could be bigger and better than we are today if we had the opportunity that very few have.
That aside, I’ve liked to experiment with drugs over the years. I’ve never done them from being depressed or any other reason to make them an escape of any kind. Some times, for some of us, when drinking, an enhancement is called for. There are many different kinds. To each their own.
NOW, there has always been a golden rule of sorts when experimenting. Never do heroine because you’ll become a junkie and lose everything and everyone you know. Never smoke crack because, same result. And you can add a third these days. DON’T POP PILLS! Same result.
SO, with everyone knowing these RESULTS and some STILL choosing to stick a needle in their arm and become a junkie and break in to their families and friends homes and steal their valuables and beg for money and get aids and hepatitis, WHY should feel compelled to help them?
There is a big difference from the junkies I've described and the father of 2 that lost his job and he and his wife are about to lose their house and they can barely feed the kids and the car was repossesed. These people, I would help any way i could because THEY fell on hard times. As for the junkie, I have to regards for his well being or life. I have no empathy for junkies. I will watch them starve and bleed to death because they had a choice.
To me, a brother and sister is someone who has been good to me thru life. Blood means nothing. Because the junkie could be my own blood.
They get the same treatment.
It’s a tough discipline and it’s not for everyone but I sleep comfortably.
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