Wednesday, December 19, 2007

What are today's modern day 'Scarlet Letters'?

Some “immoral” behaviors that are frowned upon in our modern day society, are drug users. A lot of people view people who use drugs as “bad people” but in reality drugs don’t make someone a bad person, they just like to be in an altered state of mind. Or maybe they don’t even like it but their body craves it and they have to keep doing what they are doing to be okay.
Punishments for this type of behaviors incldue: being looked down on, judged by what you do and not who you are, people thinking that you have major issues, and wanting to stay away from you so they are not associated with “druggies”.
The punishments should be trying to help the person get through what they are going through, or not judging them, but leaving them alone to figure things out. I guress it really just depends on the person using the drugs, and it depends on their personality and attitude towards the way they use drugs. We do have the freedom to do what we want, and if someone wants to use drugs, it isn’t legal, but they can. Therefore, why should we look down on them? They are people just like us and I think we should hold them higher than how we do now.

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