Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, honoured judges, I’d like to answer the charges brought against me;
Yes, I am an addict, this part I do not contest.
It’s also true that I get irritated and tense when I go for too long without having my fix. If given enough time, I might do irresponsible things to satisfy my cravings, which would surely never have happened in a solid state of mind. My sole point of contestation is thus; are any of you really any better than me?
We belittle the drug abusers, the losers and the other dregs of society because their addictions are not socially compatible with what we percieve as successful lifestyles. Their addiction causes them to break the social contract that we are all so very familiar with, albeit in other words. Morals and ethics might be two of them, but there are several others all camoflagued in the same pattern; you should act this way because it’s the way other people expect you to. No more, no less.
Take the drugs away from junkies and see then go into withdrawal. Take coffeine or nicotine away from us all, and you’ll notice a lot of the similiar symptomes. The human mind is wonderfully palatable. If given one real moment of serotonin-producing happiness, it will try to achieve this moment again by doing the same things over and over, enough though the effect might be changed.
I don’t drink, I don’t smoke and I don’t jump out of perfectly functioning planes. I’m perfectly at ease with having found my addiction in perverted sex and sadomasochism, and that’s the addiction I’m sticking with.
