knewsom said:
"he just did drugs" is an oversimplification. LOTS of people did drugs, myself included, and don't end up like him. I'm a successful, well-adjusted, and intelligent person. Steve-O is a 30 year old child. Combine drug use with the notion that nothing one does in life has real lasting consequences, and then you get Steve-O. This goes back to what I mentioned about a spoiled generation. Definitely not society's fault - it's their parents' fault... but it's an alarming trend, which affects society, which affects how many people raise their kids.
I disagree. Some people did drugs, you, me, lot's of people. Steve-O doesn't have an off switch. At times I don't, which is why I choose to not get in certain situatiuons.
Sometimes I have a goal to get fucked up, ask the Philly Rovers.
Steve-O had that apithany later in life. He is finally admitting to himself and others that he can't handle it anymore.
Is it his parents fault? We don't know. But I've known plenty of "good parents" That had fucked up kids. It's up to the individual to make the conscience choice to change one's lifestyle.
Let me ask you this, if you had a TV camera following you around that glorified the drunken drugged up lifestyle, would you be a productive member of society now?
I'd probably be buried with the few of my friends that didn't or couldn't make that distinction.
This is one of the reasons I moved from New Jersey to Virginia, I was on the path to partying myself to death. I had to get away from that lifestyle. And I had great parents.
But it all boils down to personal choice and responsibility. I think the whole "nature versus nuture is over-simplified, it doesn't allow for personal responsibility, and that is what it all boils down to.
When I'm stumbling around drunk, I know it is self destructive, so did Steve-O.
"Hey Steve-O! Jump off that roof! It'll be on MTV!"