How Low can You Go?

[Jeff Higgins]

I don't think I have ever read anything more infuriating. Now we have drug addicts inflicting serious injury upon dogs and cats so they can bring them to the vet and get prescription drugs prescribed for them, which they then take for themselves. Just what kind of a cretin could sink this low?

Drug abusers intentionally injuring pets to pocket pain meds | KOMO

[sand_man]

That's pretty much dirt level...lower than a snail . People ain't no good...

[tabs]

Democrats.

[speeder]

Originally Posted by tabs

Democrats.

Yeah, that's the ticket.

Go away, creep.

[tabs]

Originally Posted by speeder

Yeah, that's the ticket.

Go away, creep.

Hey it is the Democrats who suffer from moral ambiguity. They voted the reigning Queen of cynical amoralism. Truth hurt?

[pavulon]

There is almost nothing many addicts will not do. They are among the most desperate people on the planet. In this way, they drag entire families through hell.

[KFC911]

Originally Posted by pavulon

There is almost nothing many addicts will not do. They are among the most desperate people on the planet. In this way, they drag entire families through hell.

^^^^ This...

[Chocaholic]

The more I learn about people, the more I like my dogs.

I think it was Mark Twain.

[sand_man]

Originally Posted by pavulon

There is almost nothing many addicts will not do. They are among the most desperate people on the planet. In this way, they drag entire families through hell.

So true, and well said. Welcome to the sad sick world of my sister. Been battling severe bipolar and drug/alcohol abuse since her teens, now in her late thirties. I could write a book series on the twisted adventures she's put my parents through (and the rest of her family). Every time we thought we had the correct course of treatment figured out, she'd get to feeling "normal", go off her meds, and spiral out of control!!!!!! My father is the only one who wouldn't give up on her and at times I think it nearly killed him. For sure, it nearly brought financial ruin.

On my parents last visit, my mom let it slip, that my sister stole and sold all the rare and collectible Winchester riffles that have been in my family since the 1920s-'30s. One of them as old as late 1800s. They belonged to my great grandfather. My dad inherited them and I grew up with them...my father used to take me to the range when I was a kid, and taught me to shoot with those guns. They were to be mine!!! Some how she worked her "magic" on my father's gun safe, when they were traveling out of the country...she even had to break into their house! Now sold for pennies to buy drugs!!!! It's not the money, it's the sentimental value!!!! I have a son who could have inherited them from me!

Oh well, I'm told she's doing much better now, but the damage is done and I'm a non-believer.

I'm always amazed at how resourceful addicts are!!!!!! If they only could apply that energy to something positive!

[Tobra]

There is nothing an addict could possibly do that would surprise me.

[john70t]

This is why my cat had to suffer through fresh surgery and multiple drain tubes from his neck over Christmas while everything was closed.
The vets were very careful or restricted even with kitty sized meds.
I ran all over town like a chicken trying to find liquids he could swallow.

Meanwhile, it would have been easier for me to get oxycontin and chop it up for him.
Go figure.

[speeder]

Originally Posted by tabs

Hey it is the Democrats who suffer from moral ambiguity. They voted the reigning Queen of cynical amoralism. Truth hurt?

“The truth” never hurts. Your completely inane and childish opinions, that you so freely share due to a lack of purpose in your life, can be very annoying, however.

[sand_man]

I'm venting now. So I apologize if I stray, but I resent it when addicts do all of this damage to friends and family with their sickness/disease, "find" Jesus Christ (become "saved"), and then judge the rest of us...peddling their new found religious swill on those of us that were always living "Christian" lives. Middle of the road, doing our best to raise families, work, play, and lead productive, LEGAL lives!!! GTFO!!!!

...stumbles off of soap box and trips over mic

[pavulon]

Part of being an addict is violating your own standards faster than you can lower them. Also dislike “2 steppers” or those that jump from sinner to evangelist...and there are lots of them in all areas especially the workplace.

[wdfifteen]

Originally Posted by tabs

Hey it is the Democrats who suffer from moral ambiguity. They voted the reigning Queen of cynical amoralism. Truth hurt?

Tabs ascribes to a fundamental fallacy - that addiction is a moral or political choice. There are addicts from all over the political and religious spectrum. Addiction is an equal opportunity predator.

[RSBob]

Originally Posted by Jeff Higgins

I don't think I have ever read anything more infuriating. Now we have drug addicts inflicting serious injury upon dogs and cats so they can bring them to the vet and get prescription drugs prescribed for them, which they then take for themselves. Just what kind of a cretin could sink this low?

Drug abusers intentionally injuring pets to pocket pain meds | KOMO

If I believed in hell or torture, that is where I would send these clowns for eternity. Yes addiction is a tradegy and plague but there is also depravity and this behavior crosses that line, just like Tabs does regularly for attention.

[sc_rufctr]

Originally Posted by Tobra

There is nothing an addict could possibly do that would surprise me.

Me neither. I do charity work in my spare time and I could fill pages with the things I've seen.

But one thing stands out more than anything else.
... Very soon into the addiction they stop caring about themselves but eventually, anybody related to them.

Have you ever seen the effects of a mother willfully abandoning her children?
Imagine trying to find accommodation & care for three children all under 10. I had to do this about 8 weeks ago.
They ended up together in a foster home but this is not the norm.

[RSBob]

Now that is heartbreaking. The innocents are the ones who get the terrible end of addiction.