Coke taking Christmas parties and work colleagues

This thread is full to the gills with people lashing others out of it for taking coke because of the ethical implications. More than a quarter of the posts on page one mention it. You didn't bring ethics into it, nor did I. Others did, and I fully reserve my right to point out the hypocrisy surrounding this. That's not out of context, it's in direct reply to

Everyone is biased to some degree. Nobody gives a fcuk about the drugs industry fueling murders in West Dublin, not really, they're just pretending to because they dislike drugs or those that take drugs. They're hiding behind the ethics claims as a smokescreen for their own biases, their brains release a little endorphin rush as they metaphorically pat themselves on the back for being holier-than-thou on the internet. Meanwhile their brain is busy whitewashing over the fact that they themselves are sucking on the teats of the fast fashion industry like a gazelle at a watering hole.

I know ethics and legality aren't the same, I said so in my previous post. My entire post was about the ethics (and rank hypocrisy) of those posters and you came swanning in going "well it's illegal" as if that countered anything I said. Someone said the lad with the rolled up 50 up his nose is as guilty as the lad with the SMG in his hand in the restaurant, which is patently absurd.

You realise that your entire argument can be turned around and applied right back at you, yes?

Holidaymakers will do anything to alleviate themselves of the responsibility of climate change

Sportsfans will do anything to alleviate themselves of the responsibility of Nike/Adidas ignoring workplace safety laws

Online Shoppers will do anything to alleviate themselves of the responsibility of supporting an apartheid-era emerald mine trust-fund baby turned Space-Karen.

Nice. Accuse the other side of being druggies in a feeble attempt to discredit them, thereby making your own points look more sensible. Classic Maude Flanders take. "Won't someone please think of the Children Westie Drug Dealers"

Who is reaping the rewards ? Are the pubs and clubs that are facilitating its use being closed down ? Where are the Road Safety Authority campaigns about the dangers of drug driving ?

And what is the point of prosecuting someone two days after they had a smoke ?

Yeah, cos that's exactly what I meant.

When's the last time you used a mobile phone? Or flew on a plane? Or ate a kitkat? Guilt-free, was it?

Way to prove my point.

You should probably give the sniff a go yourself, might liven you up a bit instead of repeating the same joke, again, even after it was pointed out how transparent it was. Helps if you have mates first, though, and I'd say you're negative craic.

Your refusal to answer the questions speaks volumes. The fact that you zeroed in one small element of what was said previously while ignoring the other uncomfortable truths (in a thread about people ignoring all the uncomfortable truths), likewise.

There are 40,000+ child labourers working in mines extracting cobalt. Using a mobile phone makes you complicit in their plight, or as complicit as McGregor is in the plight of the scumbags in Blanch the other night. This is using your own logic, remember? If drug users are at fault for the drug misery then the phone users are at fault for the child-labour misery. You might think not, but that's where the hypocrisy lies.

LOL.......is that you pigeonholing people after giving out yards about others pigeonholing you?.........disappointing, though unsurprising, coming from a hypocrite such as yourself.

And, no, you're not doing it with powerful illegal drugs. You're powering your life with dangerous, legal drugs, like alcohol, caffeine, codeine, sugar and nicotine*. You're oblivious to the harm caused to you, to others, to society and indeed to the planet by these mega-corporations who rule the fcuking world. Alcohol is considered more dangerous than fantanyl by those in the know. If coke was made legal tomorrow, would you immediately drop any issues you have with people taking it? Spolier alert: Would you fcuk.

People don't care about the gangs and drug violence, not really. Not until it lands on their doorstep. They see drug users as weak, a weakness they don't possess themselves........."yeah, tried it once, wasn't for me.....had no real effects.......all coke heads are insufferable arseholes etc". All this 'looking down on' others is exactly that, a superiority complex wrapped in hypocrisy masquerading as altruism. They don't give a **** about your man getting a smack of a metal pole for messing with the wrong people, they do give a **** about all the sympathetic nods they get when telling others how disgraceful it is and how the all the sniffheads are responsible for x, y and z.

Spare me. The only thing worse than getting stuck with a rambling incoherent drug user is getting stuck with a rambling, coherent, "I don't need drugs to get high, I'm out of me snackbox on my own smug sense of self-satisfaction" walking contradiction.

*I suspect that you're gonna read this and jump up and say "HAHA!!!! But I DON'T smoke". This is for illustrative purposes only.