Forthwith, the term "drugs" may only be used for lack of applicability of a better term: "vice". We must find this better term inapplicable due to the bizzare choosiness of the public (or at least those manufacturers of the public opinion) as to what vice to allot and what vice to condemn. That said, henceforth we will use "vice" in favour, because it is closer to applicability than a synonym of medicine. Vice is neither the enemy of good taste nor good conscience, as every man grips one vice or another, so what does vice cause in men? Vice causes nothing. A man who finds himself in bad taste would find himself such whether drunk or teetotal, so what is this exuberant enmity for vice? This enmity, this steadfast animosity, is pure fear. And this fear, dear friends, is the blood-curdling fear of accountability. A man's sin, (as a loose social, rather than moral, interpretation of the word) is a man's sin and his alone. I operate under the pretense that i cannot thus far successfully undermine the lessons of Nietzsche and Sartre, and such assumptions dictate that a man defines his own essence, inclinations to vice included. So if a man's inclinations are not dependant upon his vices, rather than vice versa, (no pun intended) from whence does this fear stem?
The answer is simple. By breeding fear and hatred for any illegal vice, so too is hatred bred for those enterprising individuals who make such vices available to a demanding public. And hatred for violent, immoral, terroristic groups is beneficial to the overall dependancy of a populous upon their employed governing body. But let us not speak of conspiracies and corruption. Rather, let us acknowledge that our world is rotten with it and move onto other issues until the oppurtunity for revision arises. This aforementioned fear, the fear that drives social consciousness to error, is simply the fear of accountability. As long as the majority of individuals -which is what comprises a populous- would sooner define themselves as needers of protection, even from the inanimate, those wicked and enterprising individuals who can provide such protection, will gladly welcome the power that goes along with it. This power, contrary to the opinions of the willingly ruled, is neither earned nor stolen nor inherited by its holders, but given freely by they who wish not to grasp the power for themselves. These weak plebians and feigning democrats - and by democrat, I address all who still cling to the democratic ideal and NOT those members of "left wing" political parties, as time is too short and altogether not short enough to deal in such frivolousness - would do themselves kindness to entertain a revaluation of their ethics en masse, or would elsewise do us free men kindness by establishing themselves in one region, and consolodating themselves as to now stray from their set borders (which may well have to be set for them, a service I and surely many others would volunteer).
So with this fear of vice now debunked and transparant, why bother with all the effort that any significant change in sensibility would entail? The deeper issues aside, such changes could even benefit the flawed society in which we currently dwell. In previous centuries, the most scourgely vices as we know them today were offered for fair prices in shopping catalogues and delivered by mail or on shelves at markets. Today, due to stipulations and legalities, these commodities can no longer be made available to general store shoppers and magazine readers, as though such measures may serve as deterrents to said commodities. However, the demand for these undesireable devices has anything but diminished. When it is made illegal or deemed immoral to offer certain services, the outcome is rarely the elimination of demand for those services. Instead, the only individuals left willing to offer those services, are those who make habit of illegal or 'immoral' - we free men realize the fallacy of moralities, yet this address is to those who do not - action. The cartels of Mexico, the overzealous dogmatists of the remnants of Old Arabia, the misled gangs of inner-city America and abroad, all attribute the majority of their revenue to marketing commodities outside of the law. To then decriminalize such commodities would be to truly take the wind out of the sails of such scoundrels.
None of this is to say that i underestimate the risk of such devices, as i have pursued them myself. In fact, this entire dialogue may have been composed much more quickly were it not for the tumbler of Irish whiskey to the left of my keyboard (one of the few vices still considered acceptable by the public at large and strangely the one that i have harmed myself with the most). However, as a student of old Nietzsche and younger Sartre, i recognize that i harmed myself with an instrument and was no victim of any maliciousness, and most likely would have done so with any tool at my disposal.
All linguistic flourishes and dated stylings aside, this discourse is not some incomprehensible pro-drug rant from the lips of a drug user, as my last remaining vices are those allotted by society at large: tobacco and alcohol. But it seems that no coherent argument is being made on this issue; merely Reaganism-hangovers and stoned babblings, and this accomplishes nothing. Accountability cannot be successfully taken from an individual, but it can be forced upon its owner, but only when there is no one else to take it from them. This is what must be done, for any progress to be seen.
Bheith ann roimh bunúsach
