Seems to me that Matthew Perry should be responsible for Matthew Perry’s death and that should be the end of it. Yes its tragic, but you are responsible for yourself in this life, and he chose his dangerous drugs and the risks that taking them entailed.
It’s like fining my neighbor 200 bucks because he wasn’t telling me to watch my step everyday when I walked down the stairs waving to him and eventually fell and broke my ankle.
That seems like a really light sentence for killing a guy by trying to keep him drugged up so you can keep your lifestyle.
This is probably true and all, but I have no sympathy for Perry when other addicts deaths are swept under the rug and blamed on the addicts themselves. Only the rich get to enforce this level of accountability.
That’s a weird way to put that. Is that Perry’s fault? Shouldn’t you have equal sympathy for him as you have for every other addict? Or are you saying you have no sympathy for any of them?
I think they’re saying it was ultimately Perry’s fault for what happened, and not that they don’t have compassion or sympathy for him.
I’ve seen similar cases locally where some pretty white girl becomes an addict and eventually ODs and the news/police/prosecutors treat her like a murder victim and come down on the dealer with heavy handed charges as if he forced these drugs into her body. Meanwhile, at any point before she ODed, these same people couldn’t give a shit about her or her situation. They’d happily treat her like any other “junky” right up until she dies and then suddenly they pretend to care.
I won’t defend people who deal hard drugs like meth and heroin, but these people often have their own mental/emotional/physical/economic issues that push them into the lifestyle as well.
Until the government wants to actually help people work through the underlying trauma and circumstances that drive people into self medicating with drugs, they can keep their judgement to themselves as far as I’m concerned.
