Whatever happened to minding one’s own business? If someone else chooses to do drugs, that of course is their business and not mine. Them using and making others aware that they do, is not an invitation to use if you don’t already. It could be, sure. But don’t assume it’s all about you either. All you are accomplishing is shaming these individuals, who usually already carry a great deal of shame around for various reasons. Just keep it moving if you’re not interested in how someone else lives. They ain’t here for you either, and no one is calling the cops on you, or getting you banned from the platform, like many of you do to them. All this extra shaming, only drives them further into their addiction by the way. Good job on being part of the solution. 🙄

i'm a hater because i don't condone wanton substance abuse?

nor tolerate those who glorify doping themselves up to the extent of obvious (reckless) impairédness, as if that's the best 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞-𝐨𝐟-𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 in the world to be?

alright then

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i posed two Direct Questions back in october—
—two direct, easy-to-comprehend questions, which were not buried in any walls of text, at all

nary-a-soul acknowledged them

let me repeat those queries here
(perhaps they'll get answered this time)

𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙞𝙩'𝙨 𝙨𝙪𝙘𝙝 𝙖 𝙛𝙪𝙣 𝙖𝙣𝙙 "𝙝𝙚𝙥" 𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙞𝙩𝙮, 𝙨𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙 𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙤𝙛 𝙪𝙨 𝙖𝙗𝙪𝙨𝙚 𝙨𝙪𝙗𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚𝙨?

𝙞𝙛 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮 𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙞𝙙𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙤𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙥𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙚𝙩 𝙬𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙩𝙤 (𝙖𝙗)𝙪𝙨𝙚, 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙙𝙤 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙗𝙚𝙡𝙞𝙚𝙫𝙚 𝙨𝙝𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙗𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙤𝙪𝙩𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙝𝙪𝙢𝙖𝙣𝙞𝙩𝙮?

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yep

i'm well aware, people are gonna get high

people got high since the beginning of time

and they'll continue getting fucked up until the very last one of us croaks

(which, at the rate society is going, could happen within the next 25 - 100 years)

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that said, i don't need any of you getting on YOUR anti-moral high horses judging ME for my choice to abstain

i don't need any of you getting on your anti-moral high horses "judging" me, for my not turning a blind eye to the realities of substance abuse

people die

other people, who don't even TOUCH the shit, get killed, or even murdered, from others' substance abuse

that ain't speculation or "just my opinion":
that's 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥, 𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐝, 𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐢𝐥𝐲-𝐨𝐛𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝚏𝚊𝚌𝚝

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if my stance on the matter makes me a "hater"?

guess what?

then i'll be that dude stationed in the peanut gallery.

booing you.

and caterwauling you.

and chucking rotten tomatoes straight at you.

—merrily—

while you're showing your ass on the Public Stage

thks

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(in case it's not clear, i'm not referencing lightweight shit like marijuana

i'm not concerned about one's getting a bit buzzed off of a couple of servings of booze)

If someone in here offers you drugs, just send them my way and I'll do them for all you haters and then there won't be any left for you to bitch about. Problems solved!!

me?

i'm punching down?

So drug users make a good punching bag for your frustrations? Take it out on an group that it's OK to punish? They're humans living a life with different circumstances than yours. Try some empathy and punch up not down.

i get the sense, that those of you who love your drugs, never shall see eye-to-eye with those of us who want nothing to do with drugs

i get the sense, you have no interest in attempting to see things from our point of view

or, put in another way: there must be a reason that *everyone* isn't using

i get the sense, those of you who love your drugs, probably wouldn't be so gung ho about it if we-all did
(unless, of course, nihilism is your nature
{it's not mine})

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for the record:
though, not the worst in the world, my own childhood (and adulthood, for that matter) is far from "sweet" or "idyllic"

i personally watched my housing project change for the worst, back when the cia decided they needed to bring my people down even further by introducing us to crack cocaine

by all measures, i should have been dead by now — perhaps, with a needle sticking out of my arm

yet, my own personal traumas have not killed me
nor have my traumas compelled me to seek out the embrace of "self-medication"

what concerns me more, is how some of you are acting like you don't know fentanyl contamination is an on-going, and ever-increasing, threat

not even weed is safe from lacing

If it's obvious, just ignore it like a preference to body type. And if they harass you further then that's a problem that should probably be reported. Just my opinion. We need to stop censoring and policing everything that might hurt anybody's feelings because their parents refused to discipline them or teach them how to earn respect.

hmm..
..alright then

so, tell me jarrett

what do you reckon?

should all of us use?

if we all use, what will be the outcome?

Posted like an ignorant person. You don't get to tell me what to do. If I seek a play partner with same intrest that should be none of your concern. Quit painting everyone with the same broad brush. If you are that daft and terrified of a meek ass meth user whom by the way are usually very pleasant people. Every one has an addiction, sex,money,drugs,food,violence, RX . Where do you draw the line. If you think I wanna live in some pastel , everyone same every thing lame lifestyle;which is what you suggest; is the most absurd an asinine suggestion ever recorded. You want vanilla go to church and find your lover. I came to fuck and have a good time. Don't tread on me!

Posted like an ignorant person. You don't get to tell me what to do. If I seek a play partner with same intrest that should be none of your concern. Quit painting everyone with the same broad brush.

How are they putting others at risk with their substances?!?!.... I assume you are talking about people who have indicators or say directly they do drugs in their profiles.... If so that should help anyone who is not interested in that to not interact with those profiles!!!

And I guarantee that you interact with people on a daily basis that are actively using drugs and you have no clue that they are.... Just sayin!!

Honey, learn not to heal your frustration all over the world because you are gepperdising,incriminating and disrespecting liberty itself,sweetie...You really want to give them right to monitor us!? Maybe this is not an app for you...

I feel like a small $2 fee for all currently free users would help pay for the enhanced drug reporting and monitoring.

They should also create a script that trolls for any kind of drug language. If any kind of drug language or street language for drugs or drug use is detected is should either be barred from being sent or sent to a monitor for further review. They already bar drug language in their profiles. I tried to put please no drugs and mine got flagged because I used the word drug. They should enhance this feature to cover the chats as well....maybe make the feature work better.

They should enhance their reporting feature.

speaking as a renowned essay writer!

i'mma keep this one short, roberto, by telling you 𝙣𝙖𝙝 — the same way you apparently don't want people telling you, or others, to stay away from drugs, you don't get to tell us, we can't spare a few hundred words

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hmm.

which would i prefer?

being fucked up on meth and eventually losing my looks and my teeth (if i don't lose my life first)?
or, do i take more of a fancy to tapping away on my keyboard for several minutes, posting to uservoice my thoughts about the people who don't respect themselves, nor respect others?

´not sure how many more times i gotta say this but, people's bad habits typically don't affect only themselves—
—people's bad habits have a knack for also fucking with 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐬' lives, and livelihoods, as well

i wish it weren't so

but, the numbers don't lie

a cursory look through kim gary's channel on youtube should suffice, towards bolstering my argument

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(besides, i already gave my opinion that grindR, and other-such adult dating venues, should allow drug {ab}users to fully disclose what they are, and what they do — to allow us the opportunity to make an informed decision

{drug peddlers, instead of directly advertising through their profiles, can privately solicit those folks who had openly declared their habits})

Where does it stop? First we cancel drugs, then anal, than oral sex, then any sex.. If you don't want drugs block the profile and report it.

Please people don't write your essays here and make it short and direct.

Get rid of the gear tag, it only means one thing and it encourages drug users to advertise or look for drugs

@ Akalah
Why is a female like you worried about the chat of gay men? Mind your business and don’t be such a mitotera.

People do drugs, get over it. If you find out they do and it offends your tiny brain just block them. Can you imagine the wasted time of the police if Grindr reported suspected drug use from pendejas like you?

Rather than trying to ruin the lives of people you’ve decided are bad people, why not try to understand what brought them to use these drugs, if the drugs are truly a detriment to them and those around them, and if they’re living in poverty because of the drug, try to understand what took them to that low - was it the use of the drug or was it more truly the fact that they were cut off from feeling okay about themselves by presumidas like you who equate people who use drugs with bad/evil people.

The real evil in this world comes when people refuse to use the empathy (that so few creatures on this planet are gifted with) inside them to understand and grant grace and give support to those in peril, but would rather harden their hearts and further hurt someone who is very likely self-medicating because of some susto or trauma that has hurt them deeply already.

If someone offers drugs.. report the.conversation ..