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[arilean]

I've definitely acquired a more relaxed attitude towards other people's behavior after coming to college. but there are some things that still bother me. Like my suitemates smoking shit in our suite

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[eatenbykraken]

Why exactly are you not taking this to the RHs? I think it might be a wise move.

[arilean]

A couple of reasons, but mostly because that won't solve the problem (and I've tried it before)

[mindboggling]

I don't agree that alcohol only affects the person who is drinking it. I completely vehemently disagree, actually.

And personally, I'd rather be around stoned people than drunk people any of the week. They're much calmer, much more rational.

[arilean]

Alcohol does affect people other than the drinker, but not by virtue of secondhand consumption. That's what I meant. For me it's about choice -- saying "I'd rather" implies a choice, whereas the only choice I thought I made the other day was to come home early to my own room. I wasn't thinking, while opening the door, that I was making another choice as well. I don't want to begrudge people their own lifestyle choices, but I believe that a person's right to live how they want to ends when that person starts hurting someone else. It's one of the only philosophical tenents I actually hold to... honestly, I think the world would be such a better place if people would just be more considerate. I don't care a whole lot about the blowdryers and straightening irons strewn over the bathroom, or the pile of boxes in the hallway, because they don't interfere with my life. I mean, I care, but they don't exactly give me pause. I can close my eyes or look away and just be sitting in my little space, working on my own, and it's as if they'