Why Celebrate Drug Addicts?

[JSt0rm]

you left out "dopers"

did someone hijack your account?

lol yeah. you know that dude is like 95 years old

"damn dopers" lmao.

 

[Number1]

Famous and extraordinarily talented person dies an untimely death. OF COURSE there will be publicity. Of course people are going to recognize her talent.

And it's certainly a warning to the devastating effects of drug and alcohol.


What's hard to understand about that?

 

[HamburgerBoy]

What would it take for you to feel even an ounce of sorrow? The death of a brother or sister to drugs? Your Mom or Dad? Your wife? Or how about a child of yours?

Coming from a guy that laughs when SUV drivers die in rollovers.

 

[sandorski]

Coming from a guy that laughs when SUV drivers die in rollovers.

Well, that is quite ironic, given why so many people buy SUVs.

 

[NFS4]

People in the media are talking about Whitney Houston as if she were some type of godly figure. In reality, she had a few good songs, had a decent singing voice until she ruined her body with drugs, then died because of drugs. Same thing with Amy Winehouse. Just some drug addict who had one measly decent song. Not to mention all of the great people in society who actually do accomplish things that benefit society and get absolutely no recognition. She ruined her life with drugs. I'm not going to feel sorry for her.

Do you feel the same way about Jimmy Hendrix? He's pretty well celebrated even this long after his death and he was even in his prime.

 

[IGBT]

you left out "dopers"

did someone hijack your account?

I said reckless fools that covers it all and you.

 

[zinfamous]

I said reckless fools that covers it all and you.

and me, what?

grammar.



lol at your idiot sig. gas was $3.75 prior to Obama inauguration.

lol at inbred idiots!

 

[FoBoT]

BTW, Intervention is on A&E , right now

 

[The Sauce]

just because someone does drugs doesn't necessarily make them a bad person. most of the times its good people making bad decisions.

Spoken like someone who truly does not understand drug addicts. They selfishly wreck everyone and everything around them. They wreck their families, their friends, they steal from people they know and from society. Then when they ruin their bodies and minds they drain society further racking up gigantic medical bills all with cries for pity for their terrible disease. SCREW their disease. I deal with drug addicts every day and I'm sick of the way our society enables and coddles them. I agree with the OP. Don't care one bit about Whitney Crackhead except to maybe serve as an example to others like her.

 

[JSt0rm]

I said reckless fools that covers it all and you.

Old man, its time to change the depends.

Soon your bigoted small mind type will be no more. You are a dying breed, literally.

 

[IronWing]

They're fun at parties. Except the dead ones; those ones are fun at after-party parties.

 

[jhansman]

Because the mainstream media celebrates "car wrecks" of any form. It's what the sheeple want.

This. Around-the-clock broadcasting has to have something to talk about, even if it's not worth talking about. This is why my TV has an off button, and its remote a mute.

 

[LiuKangBakinPie]

Everyone has their faults. She is celebrated because she wasted exceptional Talent. If we were to not celebrate someone because they are dead, we wouldn't celebrate anyone.

fixed

 

[Fausto]

So basically, we should collectively discount a lot of the music, art, and film that was created in the last 60 years or so.

Solid thinking.

 

[LiuKangBakinPie]

So basically, we should collectively discount a lot of the music, art, and film that was created in the last 60 years or so.

Solid thinking.

Most of thatonly gets sold after they die. 2 Pac is still releasing music

 

[MetalMat]

People in the media are talking about Whitney Houston as if she were some type of godly figure. In reality, she had a few good songs, had a decent singing voice until she ruined her body with drugs, then died because of drugs. Same thing with Amy Winehouse. Just some drug addict who had one measly decent song. Not to mention all of the great people in society who actually do accomplish things that benefit society and get absolutely no recognition. She ruined her life with drugs. I'm not going to feel sorry for her.

Because she is nowhere near as perfect as you

 

[ch33zw1z]

I don't wish drug addiction on anyone, it's a terrible cross to bear. That doesn't mean you can't mourn a death or celebrate a life. Get over yourself.

 

[Fausto]

Most of thatonly gets sold after they die. 2 Pac is still releasing music

I think he's really the exception rather than the rule. Lots of bands were at most creative during periods of addiction. The Stones for example.

 

[SillyOReilly]

The shit she took while dying > you.

 

[LiuKangBakinPie]

I think he's really the exception rather than the rule. Lots of bands were at most creative during periods of addiction. The Stones for example.

yeah lol Rock bands know how to snort

 

[Ninjahedge]

Do you feel the same way about Jimmy Hendrix? He's pretty well celebrated even this long after his death and he was even in his prime.

He did in his prime.

There is also a bit of nit-picking in that he choked on his own vomit. Something that could have been prevented if he, I don't know, leaned forward.

Whitney I have little sorrow for. She had a voice that could belt out a tune, but not a hell of a lot of vocal versatility. She burnt out with BB, and kept tumbling. I feel sorry for the fact that she wasted her life, but I feel no loss at her passing.

I DO think that she is being over-celebrated in her death. If people gave half as much attension to her life as they now give to her death, maybe she would still be alive.

 

[IGBT]

Old man, its time to change the depends.

Soon your bigoted small mind type will be no more. You are a dying breed, literally.

well then..you should be out partying hard doing your dope.

 

[Juddog]

I believe that a person's contribution to society matters more than what type of person they were.

If some band does a bunch of drugs and comes out with a few fantastic albums, then I don't chastise them for doing drugs because that is what made the music good. If an athlete scores the top in their field and becomes a hero to a bunch of little kids, then is found years later to have done performance enhancing drugs, I still value their contribution to the sport.

If I'm hanging with friends doing Karoake, I don't devalue their singing because they were drunk at the time.

People contribute what they contribute, and if it's something valuable it should be looked at as such regardless of what drugs they were or were not doing.

Same thing here. Whitney was a really good singer for a while, just as Lindsey Lohan was really hot for a while, just like Jim Morrison made some amazing music with the doors for a while.

Imagine if we found out that Leonardo da Vinci was doing drugs when he made the Mona Lisa - would that mean the painting suddenly dropped in value?

How about when we found out that Francis Crick discovered the DNA helix while on acid?
http://www.miqel.com/entheogens/francis_crick_dna_lsd.html

Does that mean we ignore DNA now? No - it was a contribution to society and if it weren't for acid temporarily elevating his mind to above the normal human level, then we may have not discovered it's structure until years later. Regardless of what substance the person was on, the point is that they did something amazing and made a contribution to society.

 

[ch33zw1z]

well then..you should be out partying hard doing your dope.

You often use the word "dope". How do you define "dope"?

 

[surfsatwerk]

well then..you should be out partying hard doing your dope.

It's more fun when the dope does you.