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mvassilev
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posted July 21, 2008 02:48 PM |
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Would you also consider a person who is forced into drugs by peer pressure and then for them to get addicted and keep taking it to be a choice?
Yes, since no one pointed a gun to his head and said, "Do drugs!" No one forced him to hang out with that crowd, anyway.
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william
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posted July 21, 2008 02:58 PM |
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If you have been in a large group of friends, it is kinda hard not to succumb to peer pressure at times.
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mvassilev
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posted July 21, 2008 02:59 PM |
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Maybe, but no one forces you to be in that group of friends in the first place.
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william
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posted July 21, 2008 03:04 PM |
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I know, it is a choice to stay with that group of friends since you should at least have some friends to hang out with. But peer pressure is really hard to get out of.
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mvassilev
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posted July 21, 2008 03:20 PM |
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you should at least have some friends to hang out with
Hmm... if they're druggies or hoodlums, maybe it's better not to have any friends.
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posted July 21, 2008 03:33 PM |
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Well *shocks everywhere* I kinda agree with mvass here 
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posted July 21, 2008 04:21 PM |
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This is less about choice and more about upbringing and the lessons that are taught to you as a child, the difference between right and wrong. My mother was a drug addict as well as an alcoholic so was my father, Grandfather (both of them) and my Grandmother. I did my fair share of drugs and drinking while a teenager and then discovered that if I was going to survive I had to get out of my home.
This lead me to getting married at sixteen then divorced two years later. I quit high school in ninth grade and married an alcoholic that was a closet drinker. I made a choice to divorce him and because of my lack of education and the fact that I was a single mom and scared I married again quickly. This ended in disaster as well; you follow by example subconsciously if nothing else. Through it all I managed to get my GED and go to college while raising three children holding a 3.7 GPA.
I could have easily been the drug addict or raging alcoholic that my family members were and it was a struggle everyday not to give in to that in which I grew up with. I did not make a choice to be poor or have to be on food stamps at different times in my life, it was circumstances’ growing up that threw me out into the world all too soon, that was the main factor. You have to look at ones childhood as well before pointing fingers and saying that they made that choice.
I got lucky getting my GED and being able to go to college, however it could have been that did not happen and I would be a single mother on welfare the rest of my life. No education, no job.
The opportunities that are given as a young adult living with your parents etc play a role in where your life goes.
Now some do make the choice to live off mommy and daddy and depend on others all their life to never do for themselves. Some do make the choice to never try in this life; some are just very unfortunate when it comes to life. So ultimately is it our choice, sure in some cases, in others it is the hand that is dealt and those that are not playing with a full deck to begin with. Some can overcome and others can never find the road.
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