Quote Originally Posted by .blank cd View Post
Do you think the fact that he smoked weed made him a bad person?

What about the fact that they caught him with jewelry that wasnt his?
My opinion of drug use varies from case to case. I don't think drug use is an automatic qualifier that you're a bad person or bad kid. The choice to use drugs is about like a coach calling a flea flicker triple option reverse.... if it works for you, it works. When it doesn't, you have to take responsibility and not use the excuse of "it worked for that other guy!!!". A lot of my family are drug addicts and i am constantly hammering them about it. Me and my cousins are all about the same age. When we were in school, my cousins were constantly getting in trouble, getting expelled, ect ect ect.... Every time they got in trouble they would also claim that i was doing the same things they were, and for the most part, i was. The same patterns continued until we became adults. My cousins all have 2-3-4 kids they dont care of, have been in and out of jail, lived with their parents most of their life, dont have their own house or cars and are pretty much bums. Our entire life, theyve all been saying "you did it too" or "You do everything we do and your mom thinks youre some kind of perfect angel" and theyre pretty mad about it. So i told them when they start smoking and drinking in their own house, driving their own cars and paying for their own stuff, then they wont have to listen to anyone's advice anymore. I've drank, smoked and used a variety of recreational drugs since i was about 15. I made good grades in school, went on to college, have a career, live in my own house, pay for all of my own shit and take responsibility for all of my actions. If at any point in my life any of those things would have been in jeopardy, i would have adjusted my ways.

I dont think being a drug user is an automatic qualifier for being a bad person, but you have to take responsibility for your own actions. If drugs are affecting your life, you cant lay on the excuse that "John Doe" uses drugs and its ok. That's what you have a habit of doing. You continuously are an advocate for weed, but you refuse to take the bad with the good. Trayvon clearly had some issues going on in his life that i'm sure drug use was not helping. While i dont think weed specifically had a negative effect on him the night he met Zimmerman, i do believe that opiates could have severely affected his judgment.

Parenting could have prevented everything that happened to Trayvon. I keep hearing black people in the media saying "now we have to teach our kids how to walk not to fast or not too slow so people dont think theyre suspicious"... That's some fucking ignorant bullshit and bad parenting. Theyre making an excuse for their kid's actions and ignoring the fact that he chose to assault someone. He chose to turn away from home and confront someone physically. The kid had a cell phone...... he could have called either his dad or the police. My parents ALWAYS instructed me to call them if i needed anything.... My parents were not the type to threaten me about getting in trouble, they wouldnt say "you better not be drinking" or anything like that. Anytime i left the house, my mom would say "if you drink anything, dont drive, stay where you're at or call me to come pick you up, i wont be mad if you call me, i just dont want you to drive.... seriously, if it's 4 in the morning, call me".... and she would say this every single time..... all the time, every time.... she would never not say it. The problem with most parents is that theyre either too strict or completely absent.

Trayvon was caught in a situation where he didnt have the tools to make the right decision. Maybe drugs played a role in his poor decision, maybe they didnt, but Trayvon's history shows that he was a troubled youth who had a habit of making bad decisions. His parents could have helped him, maybe they were trying to and just not doing enough..... but that is the problem. When faced with a unfavorable situation, Trayvon's instinct was to be confrontational and respond violently. Just one of a string of bad decisions in his young life.


Quote Originally Posted by .blank cd View Post
I suppose the better question would be, do you believe those attributes contributed to his death? Why or why not?
They could have. I already spoke in detail about the psychological affect that opiates have on a person. I dont think weed contributed in any way to that specific event, but the opiates could have. Weed doesnt make a person agitated, opiates do.