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Originally Posted by duga
Maybe this is a cultural thing, so I'll apologize and try to approach this a little more calmly.
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Please do man. I'm not trying to be overly dramatic but these things really scare me away from a forum. It doesn't matter if it's me or anyone else who's treated unfair. I just can't stand injustice. And altough I'm sure I might have used the wrong tone, you guys should know by now that I'm by no means disrespectful to anyone.
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You got assaulted because you posted in a thread where people who post in it *shock* probably do drugs.
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Sure, but I didn't know I wasn't allowed to ask questions or criticize drugs.
I'll stay away from this topic from now on. Not out of principle, but if that's all I have to do to stay out of trouble, that's easy.
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As Americans, we generally don't take kindly to someone coming in acting as a parent to try to "educate" our irresponsible minds. The risks have been hammered into us since grade school.
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Allright. They weren't mentioned anyware and at some point someone (I don't even remember who) said 'what downsides' and when I mentioned risks someone went 'such as...'.
I even asked at some point if you guys were serious about not knowing the risks. I really thought you didn't. I didn't just assume you didn't, I really seemed to make that up out of the text you wrote.
I myself really (and I mean REALLY, it's one of the reasons I don't have a job) can't stand authority. I'll never ever tell anyone what to think or what to do. I'll just tell them what I think.
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American pride is an issue that can definitely cause something like this, but all we really ask is that you respect that we have evaluated all the issues and have made our decision logically.
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I do man, all you had to do is say so.
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I daresay you have some faulty knowledge of drugs. The only thing harmful about weed at all is the fact that you have to smoke it, which is unhealthy no matter what.
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I think that too is a cultural thing.
Altough it might not seem too clear because of my English that's a bit childish now and then, I'm a pretty intelligent person. And I do know quite a big deal about life. But that's life here. It's not the same as there.
And I have discovered in my time here that I have a lot of faulty ideas about other countries and that people here have a faulty idea about the dutch.
In a nutshell: Some drugs are legal here (smartdrugs and weed, mainly), but I can tell you for sure that the dutch are a lot more scared of the downside of drugs than you seem to be.
I have to add one thing to that: Almost all people I know have some level of intelligence. I know that there's an entirely different world out there that I'm not a part of, including party drugs, XTC, GHB etcetera. And I can assure you that there's a huge differencde between the people taking those drugs and potsmokers.
So you guys might be right after all. Maybe I was a bit egocentric here.