y do people hate drug users if those drug users arent hurting anybody but themselves?

Question

i would understand a drunk driver or somone breaking the law but just doing drugs y do people care?

Answer 1

Why do people care so much about homosexuals? It's how you are raised to think. I'd assume that a lot of people who "hate" drug users don't so much hate the user, but what they are doing to themselves. Maybe they don't understand, or maybe they understand too well. (I mean that, maybe they haven't known anyone who uses drugs and therefore base their feelings on what other people have told them, or maybe they have known someone who was a druggie and saw them destroy themselves and now whenever they see a drug user, they replace their sadness for the one they lost with anger.) If that makes any sense.

Answer 2

I have mixed views on this. I have known some users to be, well, sociopaths. Come in your house, use your food, take your money, disrespect your house rules like no smoking, demand and try to pressure women into sexual activity they don't want and when you respond negatively to them, they act like it's all your fault. Because they are entitled, in their minds, to anything and get irritated when they don't get their own way and cannot and will not take responsibility for their actions so treat you, and your property like rubbish. Most drug users are the scum of the Earth, so yes, as an abstract concept what you're saying makes sense, but for the bored. Lazy people with no motivation or life goals this is pretty standard.

You do have the flip side of the coin where abuse and trauma victims use drugs but even then they tend to have messed up lives, issues with self-harm and eventually suicide. A lot of mentally ill people use drugs as a coping mechanism for trauma. Okay when you're young but as an older person in their 30's and 40's it's not cool anymore and is just pathetic.

Answer 3

I don't think that people hate drug users so much as have contempt for them. Drug use actually does break the law, unless it's medication prescribed for an illness or condition. Drug users, like alcoholics, and fat people are seen as weak. And believe me, I'm not judging anyone in those states. I have no room to talk. But users of any sort are seen as a drag on the society they live in. And frankly, they make an easy target for those who would rather judge someone else that make changes in their own lives.

Answer 4

People hate drug users for a multitude of reasons. The stigma attached to illicit drugs is a major part. The phrase "drugs and alcohol" highlights this stigma. Alcoholism destroys families, place innocents at risk and etc. The legislated black market may have the most impact. If alcohol were as expensive as illicit drugs, alcoholics would likely be treated with the same disdain as those dependent on illicit drugs.

Answer 5

Do you understand that taking drugs IS AGAINST THE LAW? You are breaking the law by using illegal substances. The people who sold those drugs to you are also breaking the law by dealing. You characterize this as "just doing drugs" and ask why people care. A drug user and/or addict can do just as much harm on the road as a drunk driver. Drug users can and do use any excuse to get high and stay high. They'd take the gold out of your teeth if they needed a fix! They'd sell you, your mother and anything you own to get what they want. The people who sell those drugs to you...where did they get the stuff? Did they steal it, make it or cut it themselves?

Generally speaking I don't care what you or anyone else does to themselves with any substance. What I do care about is what you and others do to innocent people. You're not just hurting yourself...you're hurting everyone around you and anyone who loves you. You can't cope with life or the reality of it and you're going to make darn sure that no one else can either...as long as you're in their lives anyway.

Answer 6

At best I feel sorry for them. Some drug users don't just use drugs at home, but at work. Think of that the next time you go to the dentist and wonder if he has been "self medicating" himself before drilling on you. Over the years I worked with people who used drugs, scary at times, and not surprising some missed allot of work.

Answer 7

In addition to changing the addict both phsyically and mentally enough for them to lie, cheat, steal, and become physically and verbally abusive towards others, drugs also take the tax money of hardworking people to try to set the addict right. How do you think rehab centers are paid for? Millions of tax dollars are used on drug-related police activity, such as the high cost of training and maintaining healthy drug-sniffing dogs. Those millions could be spent on much more useful causes, such as helping genocide victims and funding cancer research.

Drugs cause so much more problems than a few minutes of emotional pleasure are worth. They're against the law, anyway.

Answer 8

Not true drug users do hurt others. They hurt the people who care about them and sometimes the drugs causes them to do crazy things such as harming others. They might also introduce drugs to other people.

Answer 9

Well in many cases the process drugs go through to make their way to that particular person can actually hurt alot of people,

but most people are wired their whole lives to believe that drugs are bad in everyway, they have lost their free thought

Answer 10

Well first of all using drugs is also breaking the law. And I don't like them because the can influence the people you love. They can also influence you and drag you in the same mess they're in. Personally, I talk to them and stay friends with the person, but I don't get attached to them. Oh and they can hurt others while they're high. Imagine they hurt one of your family members... and all because of theose stupid drugs!!