The Japanese are one of the few countries worthy of even more pity than us Americans when it comes to slaving for and being defined by their vocation.
I agree with you completely, but people who don't play the meaningless game of career trajectory are literally shunned by family there for it.
I understand intimately, my friend!
Yeah. It's carved to be vilified, which is hypocritical not just because there are other equivalent harms we allow young people to pursue for pleasure, there are several considerably more harmful harms we allow young people to pursue for pleasure.
All because an old newspaper magnate's paper pulp business interests were threatened by hemp and it became tradition.
You can cause severe brain damage and kill people with alcohol, tobacco, and concussions. The studies I've seen about Marijuana in teens handwring over <5 IQ points with chronic use.
It's inconsistent to the extreme.
It's not realistic or even reasonable to avoid all pleasurable activities that come with risks, which weed falls under, until an entire third of your life is over, no.
We let people under 25 play contact sports, drink alcohol, and consume large quantities of sugar, all indulgences potentially more detrimental to the body than Marijuana.
Look at all the research on contact sports and the massive risks they bring, it's weird to me those are still legal for kids.
Unfortunately, his "I don't give a shit" demeanor literally endears him to his voters.
They vote for him because they firmly feeeeeel that gubmit is holding their rugged individualism back and needs to be destroyed.
Of course their throats would be coughing up blood from all the screaming the millisecond one of the government services they don't appreciate or even realize they receive all day every day stopped happening.
But having abandoned, or never having had, basic critical thinking and reasoning skills, they'd just blame all the out groups they despise for the consequences of their own votes.
How is it a strawman? Even the person I replied to said it isn't realistic to follow the letter of the overcaution.
Honestly if they're a good student and otherwise aren't a troublemaker, I didn't see nothing.
Until they turn 18, then pass that shit son.
Did I say mandatory? I meant optional! You're "free" to die in a cardboard box under a freeway as a market capitalist scarecrow warning to the other ants so they keep showing up to make us more!
Sometimes, you just need to wipe the drawing board clean and start over. 🤷👋 🔥
There's a difference between knowing the path, and walking the path.