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SPINOZA
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Location: $eoul
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 Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 9:24 pm Post subject: |
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| ChimpumCallao wrote: |
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| Neil wrote: |
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| Drugs are not legal in Korea and they don't have the same problems. |
I think it's a cultural thing, drugs just aren't fashionable here and fair play to them.
Also they don't really need drugs as Koreans kind of have this natural high thing going for them. |
Yes, you're dead right, I forgot to address that.
Western societies are much more individualistic and hedonistic, |
oh come ON!!!
Drinking, shopping and banging hookers, the more prevalanet of
korean activities, doesnt exactly make the case for the purity of asian values.
Koreans are a people bent on destroying their livers.....where 1-10 to 1-6 of girls has been in the 'pleasure' industry ....
Moreover, how is it that altruism in korea has been replaced by duty, and even then, they follow the Confucian ideal of 'if i dont know you, you dont exist, and if you don't exist, i cannot help you'. How is that not individualistic? Meekness and being ashamed doesnt make you less individualistic, it just makes you socially awkward. |
Dear me.
I curse myself for having used an utterance as sweeping and simplistic as "Western societies are much more individualistic and hedonistic", leaving an open goal for attacks and straw man arguments.
I was commenting specifically on drug use. Given that no-one is under any compulsion to experiment with and get hooked on drugs, it seems reasonable that use of Coca and opium derivatives for non-medical purposes is due to individual choice, pleasure-seeking, the desire for chemical escapism, or searching for some profound experience because personal gratitification of this kind is of high priority in many westerners. Perfectly respectable young professionals think nothing of taking coke for social and recreational use.
Mind you it's probably just better to say drugs are a part of our culture and not Korean culture.
With 4.6% of the world's population, America today has 22.5% of the world's prisoners, due overwhelmingly to drugs-related crime.
In 2003, the war on drugs cost the US Federal government $600 per second. So far in 2007....115,051 people have been arrested in the US for drugs offences.
Britons spend 5.9 billion GBP per annum on illegal drugs.
In Denmark, research revealed that over 30% of adults had smoked cannabis in 2006.
Sorry to be rude, Chimpum, but I simply don't give a toss about the purity or otherwise of Asian values or Confucianism, particularly in a thread whereby the objective is to discuss the relationship between criminality and prohibition. With regard to drug use and the social decay that drugs' prohibition causes, Korea and the West are as different as Mars and Saturn. |
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