Ok, I am not laughing at Rearden. I am saying his brain remember the high only of the drug. He forget the bad things the drug do to him. That is addiction.
no. i cant be convinced and neither can 99% of the rest of sober society. too much evidence for the damage druggies do to innocent people. you can delude yourself all you want that it isnt doing you damage but dont try to blow smoke up our ass.Quote from Rearden Metal:
If you spent ten minutes with me while I was using, your entire perspective would shift dramatically, and your media induced 'doped up junkie' stereotype perceptions would fly right out the window. <b>Never</b> nodding off, <b>never</b> itching uncontrollably, <b>never</b> once od'ed. Lucidity and alertness are <b>heightened</b>, not dimmed. The only way you could even tell would be if you checked the size of my pupils (or if I rolled up a sleeve).
Millions of opiate painkiller prescriptions are written every year, and you don't see all those people driving around recklessly and uncontrollably, do you?
But I know you can't be convinced. Stephen Colbert famously remarked that George W. Bush's style was to "decide something on Monday and firmly stick with his convictions on Wednesday... no matter what happened on Tuesday." It's not just Bush- all of you 'hard-J' people are like that. I guess that's why stop-loss orders exist. Without them your type would just ride every losing position into the ground.
B.R.: You're a 'J' too... but I wouldn't hold that against you.Even Ayn Rand was an INTJ.
To see what that's all about, check out this thread:
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=62171&highlight=intp
and this quick test:
http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes2.asp