Staying Away from Vices

    I was thinking about a guy that was friends of a few other college dormmates who all hailed from Cincinnati. I got to know him and them when I moved into the dorms. He was a tall guy, he seemed pretty nice, and he was talented. I heard that years later he became addicted to pornography, and that perhaps things were not that great for him. He was divorced, his life was not that promising as he had seemed in the early stages of when I knew him.

    Pornography can become a vice, we learn.

    Drugs, gambling, sexual addictions, all forms of habitual and unhealthy vices. Some think that religious activity and dependency can be a vice or a compulsive habit. Video games, watching sports, there can be other vices that overcome or overwhelm us. Alcohol, of course.

    We have to stay clear from habits and addictions that can trap us. Some seem innocuous, non-harmful.

    Some think that marijuana is non-harmful or non-addictive. I heavily disagree.

    There may be some medical uses for cannabis that are beneficial to the user, but the recreational part is a lie. I know some who become addicted to this weed and its abuse, and I think that it drives some to psychosis, suicide, mass-shootings, and general malaise.

    Yes, I have said it before, and I will say it again: I believe that THC use and abuse is causing some elements of our society to go more psychotic and wind up going on shooting sprees.

    I have claimed this observation and asserted to others, even police and military analysts. Many have questioned the accusation and beg for evidence. They question the logic.

Fine.

    But rest assured, vices are bad. And not all bad habits lead to death and destruction, but many of them do. Too many of them.