Comments by "voteZDLR" (@voteZDLR) on "This Vigilante Dad Intimidates Drug Dealers To End Heroin Overdoses (HBO)" video.

  1. Al Ken made good points all around but I think that the similarities of heroin and alcohol are apples and oranges at least insofar as society goes. First off, way more people use alcohol and most of them are not alcoholics. It's a casual thing that many people can control whereas some people with addictive personalities may not be able to control it. But the simple fact is there are more functioning people who use alcohol, and more people who use alcohol in general, than people who have ever tried Heroin anyway. Heroin just the word itself carries one of the worst stigmas of any drug besides maybe meth nowadays and even coke. The sort of stuff most people just stay away from. As far as the damage potential though yes I believe that more people have died from alcohol but that is largely in part because it's legal and it's more accessible than street drugs. If Heroin was legal I think it would either result in more deaths or (statistically speaking anyway) it may even result in less deaths ironically enough. Portugal is the crown jewel of an example of this, it lowers death rates as well as the rates of infectious disease spreading (something that many people who get into IV drugs discount the risks of, forget the substances they're taking, how about AIDS if you share needles or more common than that Hep-C?) but really yeah in my own opinion I do think alcohol is more harmful than opiates are. By far. But it's largely a question of availability in that case.
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  2. I agree that he's probably just doing it primarily out of grief. I think he likes the idea of this superhero character he's created, and he has all the guns and everything to make the images look scary. But the idea that he's actually going around and kicking doors down? First off, the dealers have guns too and I hope he knows that. They wouldn't think twice about shooting him in the same way he might think twice about shooting them. And doing that in the northeast? I am not sure 100% but I do know Pennsylvania is right next to New Jersey and NJ has some of the least friendly gun laws in the union and to actually like use them even in self defense in some cases is liable to get YOU in trouble. Which to me is ridiculous. But honestly believe it or not the heroin dealers could shoot him, just gotta make sure to do it with one of the few legal guns they have laying around. Anyway, I think the main reason he's doing it is as a form of self expression. It also helps him deal with his feelings of guilt, like "I wasn't doing enough back then... now I am!" The bottom line is and I hope he realizes it is vigilantism is basically illegal. Never stopped Batman, but Batman on the contrary actually WAS metaphorically "kicking doors down"
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  3. Nananananananananana BAT DAD
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