Originally Posted by sailingfun

Alcohol is simply a legal drug. It is far and away the most destructive drug in our society. It’s legal but lethal. Let’s call a spade a spade. Yes, I do enjoy a beer but I have no concept of it being any different than a joint or a oxy tablet. It’s one of many ways to get high. In the end a very destructive one.

Originally Posted by Omniscient

I love the extreme taken on both sides...

Why does the example of alcohol have to be “legal” and “1 drink” while opioids are “shooting up” and “illegal”

You do realize that people are addicted daily to opioids from prescribed legal prescriptions, prescribed by accredited and licensed physicians? Your idea that every opioid addict is a heroin “junkie” in a back alley really speaks to ignorance; just as alcohol abuse being as simple as an innocent 1 drink of legal alcohol consumption.

How many innocent people die every year from being killed by someone under the influence of alcohol vs the influence of opioids? Numbers aren’t even close.

Point is there is not such thing as harmless addiction, or stereotypical addict types. All shapes and sizes, all walks of life.

Honestly I think you’re either just enjoying taking the counter of all arguments or just really stuck in a prior time of ignorance and non acceptance. Every topic you take the counter argument whether it’s women in aviation, discrimination accusations, United drag parade, etc.....

Intolerant views that are causing so much destruction today.

Originally Posted by Slaphappy

I was talking about illegal drugs nowhere did I mention illegal prescription drug abuse. I called out the comical and flawed comparison to alcohol which is harmless compared to heroin and the fact that having a drink or two will never kill you vs doing heroin which carries a danger of death with every use. That is not “extremes”, that is basic science.

As far as the last paragraph of nonsense posted it shows you base all your arguments on emotions. You demand everyone conform to you arbitrary definition of what is considered “enlightened”. The United drag show and so called discrimination issues that I argued against came from a position of reason and are held mostly by the majority.

“Intolerance”, you don’t understand what that word means. Tolerance is not the same as acceptance. I find the views you hold much more destructive in long run.

Originally Posted by ToddChavez

Any controller who feels it necessary to emphasize "this is the third time I've called you!" when we miss a call. How many times have we tuned to a new frequency and called 3 times with no response?

Originally Posted by LATIN

Annoying people who say guarddddddddd after every call on 121.5

Let’s get this topic back on order !

Originally Posted by Omniscient

“I was on the landline” should be the response pilots give to the controllers.