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WHY SCIENCE IS MAKING LIFE BORING...
I’m sorry to say it, but scrolling through this category makes me a little ashamed of being a teenager.
By the looks of things, most of us are intent on gabbling on about the news that (shock-horror) smoking, drinking and drugs can shorten your life-span. As if we haven’t been told enough already. Now, I’m not advocating a life that revolves around the next fix, cig, or flagon - but let’s at least enjoy ourselves. Without these three deadly sins, where would we be?
Where would art, music and our beloved literature be without drugs? How could the artist, musician or novelist survive without the odd hasty cigarette clenched between their troubled lips? Where would the weekends of stumbling, spewing and stupidity be without the litres of white cider and mysterious mixed spirits?
If we are all as clever as we would like to think, why is it that we still torture our bodies with these fatal excesses?
The answer is fun - doing stuff for the pure hell of it - it’s supposed to be what we (teenagers) live for. Now is the time to feast on rebellion, however petty, and believe ourselves to be invincible. So why waste it preaching to the unconvertible, when there’s plenty of sensible heads on aging shoulders to do that for us?
Let’s stop patronising each other, and just enjoy surviving. After all, good health is merely the slowest rate at which we can die!
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Congratulations on standing up for what you think.
But do you even know what you're saying???
OMG THIS ARGUMENT IS SO PETTY!
YOUR COMMENT WONT STOP THE WORLD FROM DOING DRUGS AND HER ARTICLE WONT FORCE PEOPLE TO START THEM.
THEY ARE SOME WORDS ON A WEBSITE.
honestly, I am ashamed to even have to be part of such a stupid argument.
people die from Major drugs, yes.
People die from cars, yes.
people die from bullying, yes
people die from gluttony, yes
people die from having babies, yes
people die from drowning, yes
PEOPLE DIE EVERYDAY!
are you saying that we should all never drive, and that no one should bully, or that we shouldn't over eat, or that we should never ever reproduce, or that all pools of water should be shut down, except for the ocean, we just put walls around that so humans cant get in it?
people wont stop doing it. Whether it be 500 years ago, 50 years ago, 5 minuites ago, or 7000 years in the future. PEOPLE WILL NEVER STOP!
and this whole argument is so stupid. Argument period. You will never agree, just except that. okay?
because people die everyday for choices that they made, drugs are just one of the many.
I completely respect your opinion, and do not mean to trash it if that's the way you feel, but I think it's possible to have a good time without having to do physical harm to yourself. I understand the desire to just be rebellious, the desire to not submit to authority, but teens are examples to younger children, and do we want to show kids that that's all there is to being a teen? Or do you want to be thought of as something better than that?
Like I said, I get where you're coming from, but I have to say I strongly disagree. I admire your boldness to put out a piece that you knew would be disagreed with.
I completely understand where you're coming from. And I couldn't disagree more. As a writer, and as all of us here are writers, I'm sure that none of us need drugs or cigarettes to write!! Obviously, a bit of alcohol or the occasional smoke isn't going to kill or hurt anyone, but drugs are just ridiculous. People die from 'just once'. They really do. And drugs aren't about having fun- you can have fun and be rebellious without drugs! Amazing!
And though I understand your right to your own opinion, I ask you to seriously rethink your opinion on drugs. I don't want to preach, but the world would be so much better without drugs, with people actually trying to have fun and be happy without changing how their bodies work. Drugs are not required for a good time.
Are you kidding me? This is ridiculous to me, I understand the concept of everything in moderation, but sometimes it just doesn't apply. There can be no moderation once you are inside the claws of an addictive drug.
Your big argument seems to be that we wouldn't have great art without drugs, and that teenagers deserve to have fun. First of all, I'm sure plenty of people have work on here that they wrote without the benefit of drugs, and I really can't picture Shakespeare on crack. And, honestly, my fun is getting up in the morning and seeing what my body can do -- without wheezing, or collapsing, or dying. I'm healthy and I'm proud of it. And -- no disrespect to the author here, because it actually is a well written article, however much I disagree with it -- I'm horrified that Teen Ink would approve this. It isn't even advocating the legalization of drugs, just suggesting that you use them.
I want to live forever ;) Or at least die healthy. I would never want to die slowly wheezing, my liver a wreck, and from the complications of the strange substances I took all my life.
The things that you talk about, you don't have to use them to the point of excess and bad health. Moderation is the key. Because they are pleasurable, but not to the point of being unable to live without a high, and being staggeringly drunk all the time. Liquor, or at least, red wine, has been proved to be beneficial to the heart. Clean, home-rolled tobacco can make a pleasurable ciggarette, only to be smoked about three or four times a year.
You have a point, and I can see it, but you are missing the key.
Moderation in everything. You will live a long, healthy, and exciting life, free from pain and heartache.
