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Date: 2001-04-26 07:49:25

Comment:

Something tells me the Robert Downey Jr. doesn't exactly need to be breaking into peoples' houses to find things to pawn at this point. I mean, he's Robert Downey Jr.

Anyway...I think the sad thing here is that the slot that Downey is taking up (and apparently takes up over and over again) could be filled by someone who actually does want to help themself.

Please don't compare addictions, by the way. Let's not place cigarette smokers and coffee drinkrs in the same boat as crackheads and heroin junkies. It's apples and oranges, my friend.

And the cold hard fact remains that people must be responsible for themselves. It's one thing to make a mistake and get bailed out once, maybe twice (I mean, we're not so black of soul that we just plain don't want to help) but to do it repeatedly? Come on. And we are supposed to keep up the same level of sympathy everytime?
With all the common knowledge of these drugs, guess what...it really IS their own damn fault. There IS no one else to blame. Now, I can respect someone who made the stupid mistake of getting addicted, and then kicked it. They are forgiven. But, frankly, I don't give a rats' ass about these people (including Downey) that just bounce in and out of rehab, acting like they're such a victim. Sure, they're victims...of their own pathetic, drooling stupidity.
I say lock his ass up. Don't let him out to "work" (uh...make movies and more money to buy smack when he gets out...again). Time to pay the piper.