> GLENN:
> At the risk of having you lecture me about how western society should
re-examine
> drugs, I'm going to stick my neck out and say a very uncool, unhip,
Dad-like
> thing. This paragraph of yours is irresponsible. We should at least assume
there
> are some impressionable people on this forum, particularly those on the
younger
> side who are "searching", who might take your "testimony" and do something
> stupid with drugs and end up hurting themselves, either by overdosing or
> developing an addiction. Not everyone can experiment with a drug and leave
it
> alone. You make drugs sound legitimate and safe because they're used in
Indian
> ceremony, but it's well documented that American Indian reservations are
hotbeds
> of drug and alcohol abuse.
>
RICK:
You've got to be kidding, right? I feel certain in saying that anyone
interested in philosophy, who has read LILA and even approaches
understanding the MoQ is quite capable of thinking for themselves, no matter
how young they might be (let's keep in mind that we aren't likely going to
get "children" in this forum because most (if not all) children will be too
young to read and understand the books). Nobody is going out and getting
addicted to peyote (or acid, or shrooms, or mescaline) just because David B
might have said so (which I don't believe he did).
And that part about Indian reservations being "hotbeds" of drug and alcohol
abuse (where do you live Glenn?) is patently absurd... are you suggesting
that Indians have high rates of drug and alcohol abuse because of the
religious use of peyote??? They've been doing it for thousands of years...
long before alcohol was introduced by the white man, long before our
"narcotics" were introduced. One thing has NOTHING to do with the other.
What you propose here is the stifling of David B's intellectual statements
in favor some moot social concern---- according to our own system, your
methods are immoral (especially given the forum in which they are
introduced).
Rick
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