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> a power tripping drug-addled Nazi billionaire

Are you anti-drugs? Do you think drug users are bad people or using drugs is condemnable? I'm asking because anti-fascists are typically pro-drugs. So I'm confused.



Were you on drugs when you wrote that post?

You don't think drug users are bad people, so surely that's just a neutral question...

Or maybe there are times where drug use can still be a problem, whether it makes people bad people or not.

Don't drink and drive. Don't do drugs and buy media companies.


I don't see any qualification on parent post, only saying Musk is bad because he's using drugs.

But you are right, so you agree that frequent drug users should not be offered jobs with responsibilities because for example they might drug and drive.


> only saying Musk is bad because he's using drugs

I never said any such thing. Please don’t misrepresent my words.


> Are you anti-drugs?

No.

> Do you think drug users are bad people

No, no one is a bad person only because they use drugs.

> or using drugs is condemnable

As a general statement, no.

But my answer is yes, your actions are condemnable, if you decide to let drugs affect your mental state in any way as you’re making important decisions that affect other people.

For example, if you’re making safety decisions for a vehicle that’s being manufactured. Or if you are making pretty much any decision at all for a company that you run which makes medical devices that are implanted in people's bodies. Or if you’re deciding to gut a government program that is responsible for feeding or medicating thousands of people (meaning that your decisions can directly lead to thousands of deaths).

Do you think an emotionally inept billionare Nazi with a drug problem should have been in charge of deciding whether poor people from other countries (who are often non-white) continue to receive life-saving aid? Do you think if that person makes the decision to cut that aid, killing those people, it's appropriate for him to brag about it publicly using the term "wood chipper" as a metaphor?




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