willard3 said:
It's also illegal. Has anyone in this thread ever thought of that? Ever heard of being arrested for possession? Having a highly publicized "hero" on record as committing a crime that harms his body and gives money to drug dealers is not a good thing...it smacks of hypocrisy on the hero's part.
Maybe the problem comes from the fact you have a culture of celebrity 'hero' worship.
Hypocrisy would be having him going forth now to do 'don't do drug' adds, or worse having him do these ads and then being caught. It isn't Hypocrisy when you, a third party, decides that anyone in the spotlight should be cried as a 'hero' and then demand they live up to YOUR conception of what a hero is. That is your problem, not theirs. He is a swimmer, an athlete, and nothing more. You made the mistake when you wanted to worship him as a hero and tacked your demands onto his life.
I hate that people demand that those in the spotlight somehow become more then human and act all shocked when these 'heroes' turn out to have the same cravings as the rest of us. It is the irrational 'hero worship' that is to blame here, not the fact the people you chose to worship have all the failings that it is natural for humans to have!
True heroes out there are often never in the spotlight, the people who are tend to be humans being driven by nothing more then human greed for that very spotlight.
Don't worship them.
Go to your local fire station and thank the people there, they are more a hero then anyone you will see on TV. But, whatever you do, don't start demanding they live up to your code. They will pull your arse out of a fire, sure, so the least you can do is keep your nose out of their lives.
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