children are exposed or die from drug overdoses? The story goes something like "Lil Johnny thought he was buying Adderall from someone online, etc...!" Where is the accountability as a parent to monitor your child's phone activity? Why is a kid/teen buying drugs like Adderall off the black market? This is why I get so disenfranchised with these "war on XYZ"
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There are good parents whose kids use drugs and engage in criminal behavior. Short of locking a teenager in a room, he/she will have opportunities to get ahold of drugs. A parent can send a child to rehab, but there is no guarantee that it will take. What do you do, then? I have known/seen good parents at their wits' ends trying to help and reform their children. People like you who attribute everything to environment operate on an 18th/19th century, blank slate belief system that has no basis in fact. When I state this here with regards to intelligence, criminality and other things, most go running and the others become infuriated. That's almost always a surefire sign that someone has struck upon an uncomfortable truth. Anecdotally, both you and I have known families where two kids turn out great, while the third habitually engages in deviant behavior, has addictions, and generally brings shame upon the family. That isn't environment. The parents didn't completely change how they parented with that one child. There are many things beyond environment that shape who we are and become, and how we behave. If you think parents have all the power to reform the behavior of 15/16/17 year-olds in our society, you are simply mistaken. In many cases, that kid is going to do dope, steal, assault, et cetera, in spite of all the efforts of the parents. This has been true since the beginning of time.
And I don't think it's an unreasonable point to argue, "Let's try to stem the amount of dangerous chemicals smuggled into the country across a national border to perhaps make those chemicals less available to young people and maybe save a few lives.
The premise of my post is why do these parents go running to conduct interviews and blame the lowest totem pole situation before saying "could we have done better?" I don't know these people but when you go run to a camera and blame the cartel or migrants, YEP I'm going to judge you as a derelict parent. The parents that tried consoling, rehab and responsibility tried to help don't go running to cameras and blame the boogeyman.
You wouldn't accept it if you were corrected on these same grounds regarding guns. Let's say the Southside Chicago parents of a 16 year-old shooter from a gang came forward and decried the availability of guns. You would not be on here calling those people "derelict parents" and accuse them of blaming guns rather than taking responsibility for their kid.
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This is actually how to debate and think about issues. Draw comparisons, extend logic. You may not have been taught how to do these things and they may not occur to you naturally. It would be silly not to explore the implications of holding parents accountable for their actions in other contexts.
Why are these parents running to cameras to essential blame the bottom man?
The idea that the people who have created an open border and the cartels that abuse this are at the bottom of blame is absurd. And, again, you would never make this argument if a flood of illegal guns across the border were at the center of highly-publicized gun crimes.
It's weird that this, of all things, has generated such attention from you. Curiously, when presented with things that are entirely within the control of parents, like the "transitioning" of young children, we hear not a peep from you in terms of assigning blame to those parents. Weird.
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He probably knows he fucked up by starting this thread. But, I'm not sure he's smart enough to realize how embarrassed he should be.
Unless Q is saying that Hunter is such a Fuck up because of his parents.
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Are you arguing that illicit drugs are immune from the laws of supply and demand? Will an increase in supply not lower the cost of these drugs? Are you arguing that the cost of different drugs over time has not determined the levels of abuse of those drugs? Are the levels of abuse of fentanyl affected by its cheapness, is its low price not largely determined by supply, and do both of these factors not affect the degree to which kids have acces to it?
Stick to the point. I get it's easy to distract, deny and deflect.
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Disregard the open border and the related fentanyl crisis and castigate the grieving parents.
You have a point but it is disproportionately irrelevant.
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The border is wide open and the country will suffer the consequences for decades.
You don't become a melting pot by overflowing with unassimilables.
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I am so sorry you were inconvenienced by parents mourning their dead children.
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