Question. I have read some of your informative articles, and I have the impression that you are against many vices, such as: smoking, alcohol, drugs, gambling, and in general, all addictions. Aren't you afraid of losing consensus, with these positions, so rigid, and don't you expect too much from those who join you? My advice, accept everyone, in your project, which must be inclusive.
Answer. In some informative articles, we have criticized those who do not take care of themselves, and those who endanger not only their own life and health, but also that of others, with some behaviors that are certainly wrong, reckless, and risky. We have said that the State has the duty to protect the health and well-being of its citizens. We have never said, and will never say, that we do not accept anyone, but only that we will choose with great care, each individual person who joins us, deciding when they can be accepted, and by mutual agreement, we will choose together, the best role for them to do, the best activities they can participate in, and the type of user they can have. We always accept everyone, but at the right time, always putting each individual person in the right place, for the good of all. Those who have vices, certainly have many disadvantages, because they greatly reduce the possibilities of obtaining important roles, and greater responsibilities, in our system.
Our official position is certainly not to prohibit these behaviors, but to inform correctly and completely all citizens, trying to prevent or solve certain problems with logic, common sense, legality and mutual respect for all people. These rules do not prevent us from allowing into our system those who smoke, drink alcohol, take drugs, gamble, and suffer from any addiction. If you exclude them, you certainly do not help them, but they must also want to be helped and work hard, for as long as necessary, to become better people.
But let's try to write something about each of these "bad" habits.
Cigarette, cigar and pipe smoke contains hundreds of harmful substances that can cause diseases, even very serious ones, not only to the people who smoke, but also to those who are close to the smoker, not to mention the damage to fetuses and to those who smoke during pregnancy. This bad habit, which like all addictions, begins almost as a game, often at a very young age, for those who want to be considered by everyone as “grown up”, and to do so they smoke, often blocking their own growth and their own psychophysical development. “Good friends”, in order to have free cigarettes in the future, do not hesitate to advise their “friends” to start smoking, to become adults. In addition to diseases, such as lung cancer, which will dry out your body, like fallen leaves on the ground, or heart disease, smoking kills brain cells, which unfortunately do not regenerate. When you are young, you do not notice it, because you are full of energy, but as time goes by, smoking causes impotence, not to mention the destruction of teeth, tumors of the mouth, throat, trachea, and other very serious diseases. Starting to smoke is simple, a few initial coughs and that's it. As time goes by, you will see how many coughs, continuous and annoying, you will have, with pulmonary emphysema, after a few years of smoking. The addiction is irreversible, or, almost impossible, to resolve in a simple way. So you throw away money, trying to quit, like nicotine patches, and electronic cigarettes, which certainly do not cure the addiction, but continue its irreversibility, and of addictions, they create other, expensive, and not entirely healthy ones. The State, in many countries, always increases the taxation, for tobacco products, partly to earn immediate money, to spend badly, with the ridiculous excuse, as well as false, of encouraging people, to stop smoking, by increasing prices. Those who smoke, have many possibilities, of getting sick, with related treatments, often useless, which cost a lot, for the population, and for those who pay taxes, and for these vices, even those who do not smoke pay. Not to mention the various road accidents, caused by those who light up a cigarette, which often kill, even innocent people, and not only irresponsible people, who do not resist, until the next parking lot, to be able to smoke, in a "safe" way, at least for others. Do a simple calculation, how much you spend per day, for your smoking vice, and then multiply this sum, by months, years, decades, and you will see, what a nice sum, literally goes up in smoke, to make you become, "stupid and sick adults". How bad is it if you don't have something to light a cigarette with? Don't hesitate to bother anyone just to ask for a light. And the pain you feel when you find an empty pack of these sticks of chopped tobacco wrapped in paper. You don't wash, you don't comb your hair, you don't get dressed, but you run away, like real athletes, slower and slower and less resistant because of the smoke, to buy one or better two nice packs of cigarettes to satisfy your need to smoke. Not to mention the bad smell at home and your personal one that no one or a few sincere friends will tell you about. Go kiss a boy or a girl, according to your tastes, and you will see how your breath "smells" of smoke and burnt lungs. Ask someone who doesn't smoke, how lovingly they love to be kissed by someone who smokes. The solution exists, but few people let you know about it. You just need to be an ambitious person, with a great willpower, intelligent, with a powerful self-control, and with a winning mentality. If you want to stop smoking, don't just do it between one cigarette and another, but prepare a small graph. As a starting point, there must be the number of cigarettes you smoke, at that moment, and then, decrease by one cigarette, every day, or, even just, by a couple of cigarettes, every week, respecting with great attention, the number of daily cigarettes. It takes more time, but you will soon get to a couple of cigarettes a day, then, to just one cigarette a day, and then to one every now and then, exactly as you started. If you have the willpower, and the respect, for yourself, and for others, of the exact number, of cigarettes, in a very short time, you will stop completely, without ever starting again, not even by mistake, you will never go back. In a few months, you will no longer have relapses. In a few years, you will slowly cleanse your body, and after about ten years, it will be almost as if you had never smoked. Unfortunately, some damage is irreversible, but at least you will not increase the risk, and the percentages of having very serious problems will drop enormously. Don't worry, for those who work in the tobacco processing industry, they will find another job, the important thing is your health, and that of those around you, and who love you. We ask you a favor, never be too optimistic, in saying, that it will never happen to you, because all the cancer patients said so, or, those who suffer heart attacks, aneurysms, and very serious diseases, related to smoking. We, do not prohibit anything, we do not increase the prices of anything, we just inform you, and give you the right solutions. If you are intelligent people, you will understand, that it is better for you, and for everyone, if you do healthier things, and more useful to you, and for the whole society. We want you to be healthy, so that you can work, for a long time, together with us, to change and improve the world.
More or less the same things that we said about smoking also apply to drugs, alcohol, and those who abuse drugs. Even the methods for quitting are all more or less the same. Only with a gradual, but continuous, and rigid reduction in the amount of harmful substances can one recover from these addictions. There are countries where “soft” drugs are allowed, and others where there is even the death penalty for dealing and consuming narcotic substances. Contraband cigarettes, drug trafficking, and many illegal businesses make evil, criminal people rich, who not only sell death, but don't even pay taxes on it. These enormous profits, and this illegal business, create considerable risks for all consumers. Traffickers and pushers, to increase the doses, put in everything from flour, to bicarbonate, to sodium, and even some toxic, and even deadly, substances. This Russian roulette, that every person who buys and consumes drugs, especially those of illicit origin, plays with himself and his “fun” companions, creates many deaths, much pain, and much fear. Soft or hard drugs have many differences, but both create, not only addiction, very serious health problems, but they take away, like alcohol, the cognitive abilities, and attention, necessary for driving, or for doing dangerous jobs. Trivial accidents, such as loss of balance, and the inability to react promptly to a fall, can cause the death of many consumers of drugs, wine, and psychotic drugs. Many people die, every day, every hour, every minute, from trivial accidents, many of them, could have been avoided, or people would have been saved, if they had not consumed drugs, alcohol, and drugs, without the appropriate safety measures. Unfortunately, all substances that alter our abilities are not only dangerous for those who use them, but also for those who do not use them, and are innocent victims of people who are temporarily incapable of understanding and wanting. Many tragedies could be prevented by simply having a different, more civilized, and certainly healthier behavior. Many people drink alcohol, take drugs, or abuse medications to forget unpleasant situations and the pains of life. While understanding these people, with the various vices, only more pain is added, and problems are not only not forgotten, and not solved, but new ones are added, often creating a spiral of negative events. Other people drink alcohol, take drugs, or abuse medications to have fun, or to find the courage to declare themselves to a person they like. In almost all cases, a girl or a boy who is invited out, or to dance, or who sees a declaration of love made to them by a person who is drunk, drugged, or under the influence of drugs, will refuse, or will think about it several times, thinking about the disastrous life they could have, being with a drunk, drugged, and under the continuous effect of drugs. If a person agrees to spend an evening with someone who is under the influence of such substances, and they end up having sex, the performance will almost certainly be below expectations (with the exception of those who use certain drugs to enhance the sexual act), but above all, the next day, they will remember almost nothing of the evening, and the previous night.
The list of dependencies is summarized as follows:
- narcotic substances, the so-called drugs, such as heroin, cocaine, but also cannabinoids and opiates;
-medicines, especially painkillers, antidepressants, anxiolytics or sleeping pills;
-gambling (ludopathy);
-internet and social media;
-pornography;
-alcohol;
-cigarette smoke.
To which, we add, the need, that others decide, in our place, which is dangerous and risky, because it makes people slaves, of the various systems. A Stockholm Syndrome, that many suffer from the old, failed, traditional politics, controlled by the old systems.
There are other addictions, very dangerous, such as gambling addiction, which has ruined, and ruins, the lives of entire families, and has caused pain, and often death. We add, also the addiction to video games, especially violent ones, capable of generating, in many weak people, real criminals.
We have talked about addiction to technology, Internet, and social media in this informative article, which we invite you to read, in its entirety, with great attention, at this link:
https://www.directdemocracys.org/law/info/fundamental-questions/internet/social-media/social-network-addiction
Addiction to sex and pornography, in many cases, turns into real dramas, which do not allow those who have these vices to live in a healthy and normal way.
Let's analyze briefly, if the old system, the various lobbies, the various criminal organizations, the large and small traffickers, but also, various categories of people, it is convenient to have a healthy population, that does not throw away its money, that does not have addictions, that cannot be controlled, blackmailed, corrupted, and that is mentally stable. Do you think that it is useful, for the few bad people, to have many people, with a clear mind, and impossible to manipulate? The categories of people, mentioned above, do not need healthy people, and capable of using their abilities to the best.
Being against these substances, against behaviors that are certainly wrong, and against those who exploit these vices to enrich themselves, and above all, working hard to effectively prevent these ethically incorrect behaviors, is a duty of every good person.
The solution? It is never to prohibit, or to forcefully impose, healthy behaviors on those who have no desire to listen to good advice. If a person is stupid, reckless, and does not care about the consequences of their actions, the only way to recover them is to give them goals, providing them with all the solutions, and all the means necessary, to be able to achieve all these goals. They seem impossible things, but even if the solutions are never simple, their implementation is possible, only and exclusively, in our DirectDemocracyS system, where each person has many important and useful activities to do together with many other people.
We have created the only system that wants all people to always be: healthy, lucid, mentally stable, free, incorruptible, honest, sincere, reliable, loyal, competent, and above all intelligent.
Every intelligent person, and gifted with reasoning, would not be dominated by vices, would not ruin their own life, and those of the people around them, but would seek help, to escape from this spiral of wrong choices. But to do all this, first of all, 2 things are needed: love, which is in first place in the solutions to everything, and which is the greatest force in the universe, and willpower, which is certainly in second place.
For your sake, we hope you find both of them, right away.
