Is a person automatically a bad person if he does drugs?

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MrOracle · Accepted Answer

That depends on your definition of "bad person" - but here's the truth: drugs are not only bad for your health - they are potentially deadly, in fact - but they often lead to other behavior that is dangerous (to others or to themselves) or illegal, even if they only had the best of intentions. And perhaps most insidious of all, most drugs are addictive to some degree (some to a massive degree), and that's all the worse for someone who is genetically predisposed to addiction in the first place. Addiction never seems dangerous going on - it just seems fun - but it's like a glue trap for a rat: it smells like yummy food, but every step and motion you take gets you further stuck, and you often die before you can be helped.

Obviously it's possible for some people to use drugs and have nothing bad happen to them - just like it's possible to jump off a third floor balcony into a hotel swimming pool and have nothing bad happen to you - but it's also possible to be severely injured or killed trying the same thing again. One little slip, or failing to push off far enough, or whatever, and you miss the water and hit concrete instead.

But addiction is probably the worst thing. An addict will give up anything, will do anything, will risk everything, will throw away everything, to get their next fix. Many end up in prison for years at a time because they HAD to get their next fix and did something so bad in the process (almost always hurting innocent people) that they end up losing years of their lives to prison. And many will use again the same day they get out. Others will OD and die, or their body will just give out, much like Michael Jackson or Prince or Scott Weiland - and those were guys who "had everything." For other people, the despair of addiction gets so bad that they take their own lives. Kurt Cobain and Chris Cornell, among many others, are examples of this.

Then you have to consider the drug industry itself, and the violence and corruption it causes as it supplies you with drugs, and all the innocent and desperate people it harms along the way. There's a long tail there.

I certainly think that you can use drugs, and realize you've made a big mistake and seek help with recovery, and come out of it a good person - assuming you survive to do that, of course - and perhaps you may be lucky enough to not be genetically predisposed to addiction and use only drugs with lesser addictive effects and are able to quit on your own. But the slope is very, very slippery, and SO many people use drugs believing that they're in control, only to realize WAY too late that they aren't, and by then, they might be past surviving it.

I've lost a number of family and friends to drug and alcohol addiction both. I've seen the pain and despair and regret in many of those people, but they couldn't be saved from themselves and they died when they should have lived years or decades more. I've also had several friends who were complete innocents who were killed by drug users they had no involvement with until the day they died for being at the wrong place at the wrong time.

Again, I'm not saying that taking a hit off a joint will ruin your life - but for tons of people, that's their first step down a path that eventually does.

RickPen · Accepted Answer

Drug type and motivation are key in determining. Usually, people use drugs to escape something uncomfortable. That doesn't make them bad. The problems come if the person does anything to follow the addiction, in which case I still wouldn't say they're inherently bad.

What I consider bad is a greedy person who harbors malice, prejudice, and hatred for others. Drug users are almost never this way, but damaged due to tough lives, or at least out of boredom.

btbc92 · Accepted Answer

Not really. But it does means he's dabbling into bad things and that is concerning. Does he want to change and get clean? Then it means he needs help. Thinks there is nothing wrong with it? Bad influence. Most people who do drugs, drink, smoke, have meaningless sex, parties till they drop, etc, suffer from some time of mental illness and other issues. They need help, not a handout.

AzureGirl · Accepted Answer

Maybe not to those who also use drugs. It can be a huge turn off in multiple ways though.

Metlahaed · Answer

No... Obviously not. That is also such a weird question because no one even defines drugs properly, like what do you mean? Advil? Weed? Alcohol? Cigarettes? Anesthetics? Laughing gas at the dentist? Pain killers for child birth? Meth?

Morality isn't black and white, there's no objective moral good or bad, everything is contextual and relative.

AdithyaR · Answer

Depends on what you mean
The antibiotics a doctor prescribes for medication is classified as drugs while cocaine is also one.
But since you probably mean the illegal ones and narcotics.
It's kind of a grey area about whether the person is good or bad but I'd have a bad image of them in my mind, it's just involuntary.

Anonymous · Answer

You're basically looking for validation in this post, because the way you worded your question, hardly anyone will answer "yes". A person isn't bad because of doing drugs. Now, is it a bad thing in a relationship? Yes. Having to deal with an addict is awful. They're not in control of their own mind and feelings, and at least the ones I met will deny the terrible effects substance abuse has, making it even more difficult for those who want to support them and be there for them

Freddy78361 · Answer

No. It means that they are missing something in their life and are trying to compensate for that gap. Same for women, too. Women aren't bad for doijg drugs; they are just unfulfilled.

IAMNathanael · Answer

I have to say no. My dad used to have a meth problem but he would give you the shirt off his back if you needed it.

MrKinktastic · Answer

Of course not. If they do shitty things to people to get drugs they cross that line though.

Theodoricus · Answer

I guess, no. Many drugs are legal just like psychological medicines. If it's not so that, many people should be bad.

Daniel_Dano · Answer

I don't think so , but drugs will make you lose your actions and conscious , its the drugs that will turn you into a bad person.

BCA6010 · Answer

Not sure I'd say "bad" but "loser" definitely.

ItsTheNephilim · Answer

Depends on what you mean by 'bad'.

Fuentes · Answer

No but you should stop

Anonymous · Answer

Yes and if you get shot by the cops ol well

Anonymous · Answer

Most people who do drugs have shitty lives.

Jmmmfi4 · Answer

Automatically a stupid person

CT_CD · Answer

No..

Jakeofalltrades93 · Answer

no just bad choices

Anonymous · Answer

Yes they are

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