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Originally Posted by ben voyonsdonc
Addiction is a health issue - it is a part of a disease. You can't lose sympathy for a guy who has battled addiction for significant portions of his adult life. Our society often treats addicts as criminals or bad people...they are usually just people who are dealing with pain, mental health and/or family issues and have made a serious mistake. Treating those people who are dealing with addiction as rejects or criminals only exacerbates the issue.
Addicts are our co-workers, brothers, sisters, parents, children, or even ourselves. Addiction doesn't take someone's humanity away. We all face our battles as human beings.
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Say something new. So tired of reading this drivel every time someone offs themselves on drugs. No one is suggesting the plight of the drug addict isn't one of the most awful things imaginable. Nor that it's incredibly impressive when someone recovers or makes a go of their lives. I know because I've got plenty of friends that have been drug addicts or booze addicts and some have gotten better, others haven't and some have perished. The ones that have perished had mental health issues that were prevalent prior to drug use. But one way or another we each have to take responsibility for how we choose to live.
I didn't know him, I don't know his family, I never will, as such I'm not going to spend much time feeling sorry for the person. I will however think that it's sad that he's no longer around given what a good actor he was and that I enjoyed his movies. I can also be empathetic towards ones family/friends without thinking of the individual. But there's plenty of more sad stories out there that warrant attention more so than some movie star that had a better run at life than 99% of the word population and "maybe" didn't make it because he partied a bit too much and it turned into a habit.
We'll see if more comes out that suggests I should feel otherwise. But don't patronize me with the "you can't do such and such" when I clearly can. Perhaps it should read "I can't take your comments at face value but I can start preaching from my high horse about what I think you should and should not do". Especially since at no point did I say anyone was a bad person or that anyone was "like a criminal".