Everything changes

One of the most impor­tant things to remem­ber in the pur­suit of hap­pi­ness is that every thing is bound to change.

 Noth­ing ever stays the same what seems inter­est­ing is that often it is human nature to resist change…

Life is always chang­ing that includes every­thing from polit­i­cal Nan­nies, to the space pro­gram which I con­sid­er the height of igno­rance to actu­al­ly scrap a pro­gram that has pro­duced so much promise over the last 50 years, but hey you know how it goes.

Things change, it is part of the human con­di­tion if it were not true we would still be sit­ting around in caves think­ing it would be nice to have a wood floor but the dirt is just so easy to sit in.

Some of us still sit in the dirt of human exis­tence because we do not want to change.

They sit there and they behave the same way over and over again, we have laws to pro­tect those peo­ple from doing harm to them­selves or oth­ers, but those laws do not work, we try to help those peo­ple, because we want to believe they can change that they can find that bet­ter path, but they do not. 

You might won­der why it is that some of these peo­ple seem to be so bent on a path that caus­es pain and suf­fer­ing to the ones they love.

There is no real answer except for this…

They do not change because they do not want to change, they do not stop behav­ing in ways to put them­selves at risk because they do not want to, they do not stop gam­bling because they do not want to stop gam­bling, its human behav­ior and you can not do any­thing about it.

You can pass all the laws you want, you can get police on the street until every­one has bro­ken some of law, but you will change noth­ing.

You can put every last per­son in jail that refus­es to change.

But it will not change any­thing…

In the end you will have a gov­ern­ment that will go broke try­ing to make peo­ple do things that they do not want to do and in the end you will fail because you can­not take the will of a human into your own hands.

It is the one thing that you sim­ply can­not take away and the biggest rea­son why that is true is that it does not belong to you.

We all know peo­ple that we love and we would like to pass a law to get Pam or Sue or Tom or Bill to straight­en up and stop doing those things that hurt the peo­ple they love but the truth is you can­not stop them from doing those things by pass­ing laws or lock­ing them up in prison.

Sure there are extreme cas­es where lock­ing some­one up because they are vio­lent or have caused vio­lence and prop­er­ty dam­age or have com­mit­ted vio­lent crimes, but most of the time, non vio­lent indi­vid­u­als that keep to them­selves and do not harm or dis­turb the peace these peo­ple do not belong in Jail.

Of course our sub­ject is drugs and the use of those drugs, they often call this self med­ica­tion it is abuse no ques­tion about it, but you can­not force any­one to change nor can you con­di­tion their behav­ior, you can try, but when it comes to the state spon­sor­ing law enforce­ment actions to incar­cer­ate a non vio­lent pop­u­la­tion then enslave them with fines, pro­ba­tion, and felony con­vic­tions which for­ev­er pun­ish them by cre­at­ing and lim­it­ing them to jobs that no one else wants, that is wrong and it is evil.

Yet, for the most part most of mod­ern soci­ety does not care about these peo­ple, even the orga­ni­za­tions that try to help them do not have much sup­port from the wider com­mu­ni­ty.

Addic­tion is a sick­ness it is a ter­ri­ble thing to wit­ness, watch­ing peo­ple slow­ly kill them­selves with chem­i­cals, but you can­not stop that, you might slow it down, you might make it dif­fi­cult you might make it expen­sive and dan­ger­ous to every­one involved in such behav­ior but you can­not stop it.

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