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When he said that he was holding back some of his statements on advice of his lawyers. As a felony drug abuser, he should turn himself in right now and plead guilty to any crimes he is charged.
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So he was pleading for sympathy by saying that authorities have asked him to limit his comments? Sounds to me like he was doing the right thing and working with police / attorneys. Personally, i dont see how limiting his comments could possibly be taken as aa plea for sympathy at ALL. Also, by your logic that because he did something illegal, he shouldn't have a chance to defend himself, you ought to go into your local police station and ask for several tickets, and fines for your actions while in your car. You ought to ask for a fine for every time you have gone above the speed limit, you ough to go ask for a fine for Exhibition of Accelleration (pretty much any time you try and accel faster than someone they COULD nail you for this.). There is no reason that Rush, or anyone else for that matter, should NOT put up a fight in their defense.
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Show me where he changed his mind of softened his position. So you're saying after he started popping pills he changed his mind and thought "hey, buying thousands of illegal pills and committing felonies in a denny's parking lot is actually ok." Am I following you here? And the fact that he supposedly did so, even though there is no evidence to show that he ever changed his mind, somehow vindicates him, since instead of being a hypocrite he is now a drug addict who thinks drugs are great?
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I dont know if he has softened his position at all since he has been addicted. Thats why i asked. Thats what the "?" means. There is no reason that he shouldn't be allowed to change his position on drugs and drug addicts once he can sympathize with them and learns more about it. As long as he applies it equally and stands behind it, there is nothing hypocritical. I was simply asking if that quote applied to his current stance on the issue.
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His hearing was damaged BY HIS PILL POPPING AND AT THE SAME TIME HE WAS SAYING THAT HE HAD NOT POPPED PILLS BEFORE
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You are talking about two completely different sets of pills. The pain pills very well may have caused his hearing difficulties. But in the quote that YOU supplied, he said he has "never done stuff like this before" The "this" is refering to the large regimen of hearing pills, syringes, and other thereapies, NOT the pain pills. And what he said wasn't hypocritical. I'm sure he never has been on that many varietys of treatments, as frequently, and with a poor expectancy of good results before. You are using "pills" interchangebly for the basis of your argument, without looking at the word in context. Lets use a real life example. You take aspirine "pills" every day because you hear its good for your heart. Now you have a serious health complication and are stuck on 4 different types of medication, some oral, some injected, etc. Would it be fair to say that you have "never done stuff like that before"? Sure, Even though you WERE taking pills on a daily basis before, you have dont nothing near the amount you are doing now. But if we replace Rush with "you", and change one type of pain pill for another, suddenly he is lying and cant tell the truth. This doesn't seem quite right to me..
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I would certainly have more respect for the liberal position of treating drug users as having an illness if they would apply that rule to all equally.
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Precisely! you dont really have much of a position or a real belief if you decide to pick and choose who it applies to and who it doesn't.