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I'm not asking you to 'respect weakness'. I'm asking you to respect an individual who is capable of making decisions that differ from your own, based on values that are different from yours. What you view as a weakness, I don't. You don't have to think drinking coffee is good or even acceptable, just acknowledge that an individual (particularly those here, who on the whole are the most intelligent group I've ever assoiciated with) is capable of making his own decisions with full foreknowledge of the consequences of his actions. Part of that is biting your tongue when you feel like making a disparaging remark about that person's vice of choice.
Everybody has some sort of weakness, as you seem to define it. It may not come in chemical form; many people waste hours every day in front of the television or computer, some people overeat, a great many drink to excess. There is no perfect being and frankly if there were I wouldn't want to know him; such a person in my opinion would be supremely uninteresting.
In that view, it's a bit like "Let he who is without sin..."
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I wake up in the morning more tired than before I slept
I get through cryin' and I'm sadder than before I wept
I get through thinkin' now, and the thoughts have left my head
I get through speakin' and I can't remember, not a word that I said
- Ben Harper, Show Me A Little Shame
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