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Originally Posted by woody18228
Here's the problem guth and flitherton, not all kids are smart. We can't assume kids will make a smart decision and see through what he's saying. Kids are impressionable, hell, people are impressionable.
Someone tells a 14 year old that smoking pot's not good for you, not a good idea, etc., they say, "well Randy Moss does it, and he's in the NFL."
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I'm sorry but do you really expect all role models to be clean? Free of bad experience in the past?
Since when do football players are expected to be a role model? Although Moss did admited that he is a role model but it seems that he doesn't give a squat about it. Are there guidelines for role models? What they're expected to do, to say, etc?
Kids are impressionable but they're not always dumb. I was a impressionable kid, my dad was a role model to me but he was the kind of guy who drank alot and smoked alot too. Did that rub off on me? No, I smoke weed but not that often, I barely drink a can of beer or two every week and I think I turned out pretty good considering.
For those kids that says "Well, he does it too and he's the president of United States right now" is the kind of kid that would use any excuse to be able to do anything they want. I didn't start smoking pot because some football player does it too. It was my choice and it's the kid's choice if they choose to do drug, not the role model's choice.