Comments by "Alphabet Inc." (@official_alphabet_inc) on "Mom Realizes She Murdered Her Daughter" video.

  1. Drugs does not do this to people...
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  2.  @KameradVonTurnip  Drugs does not make humans troubled, but troubled people often abuse drugs.
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  3.  @KameradVonTurnip  ​ Well, so can being robbed by gunpoint. That can also trigger an underlying condition. But whatever, neither makes the disorder, it only reveals it.
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  4. ​ @KameradVonTurnip  Don't fool yourself into thinking you/we know for sure. Trauma is the source of most, if not all, mental illness. There's also some science pointing to heritance (but I'm sceptical). Negative drug-induced experiences can be traumatic enough to trigger some underlying mental illnesses, yes, but there's no good science supporting that drug use in itself can "create" mental illnesses. If I were to think out loud, I believe it is because 1) once the drugs wear of, the vast majority of users realise that the experience did not actually happen to them, in a physical sense. And 2) they can easily avoid this experience by never doing the/a drug again. This is much different compared to being raped or stabbed. There's no doubt that drug use can change one's personality though, so we do agree slightly there. But what significant experience does not hold the potential to do exactly that? And what's wrong with an experience changing someone's personality? However, I don't agree that there's any empirical evidence supporting your claim that it changes one's personality for the worse. There's nothing that supports this claim, besides your limited impressions of drug abusers. I'm sure you don't claim the same things about sugar, chocolate, cigars, coffee, parachuting, sex, hugging and opening a Christmas present - despite the fact that all of these things works the same way on your brain that drugs do. Anything can be abused. And anything can be safely used. You can inject cyanide or venom from a black mamba directly into your bloodstream without dying if the dose is low enough. It's all about frequency, quantity and duration.
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