Originally Posted by Fdemetrio
What annoys me most is how people then tell everybody else ... don't do this or don't do that..

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Good grief Dom,

We agree again.
I fall in with those people who think that when drug addicts, career criminals et al clean themselves up, they should just lead quite law abiding productive lives.
Thereby leading by example.

The ones that go on the lecture circuit yammering on and on about how bad they were until they turned it all around, often appear to be substituting one set of obsessions for another.
Which makes you wonder when the first obsession will return again.

It delivers the subtext to the young and inexperienced...
You have a lot of time left in your life, you can indulge vices now and then turn it all around and become a super hero like me. Do as I say, not as I did.
"Jelly Roll was a druggie like me and now look at him."

But there is a giant and profitable industry that supplies drugs.
And a giant and often profitable industry that supplies rehabillitation.
And you have the Jelly Rolls. And you have the Hunter Bidens. And you have ?

Success and benefit or not, is in the eye of the beholder.

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