Well, although there are straight edge 'gangs' out there, I personally only consider myself answerable to myself on issues like this. I think if I broke edge some of my friends would be pissed off with me, because it does feel like a betrayal - not just as a friend, but of all sense and logic; and a betrayal of one's own ideals.
Which is why I was so frustrated with Ellie.
Once you've looked at intoxicants or narcotics and thought, "Hell, no. I'm not touching that shit and doing that to myself!" to renedge on that feels so deeply illogical and frankly, really dumb. That's why I, and probably a lot of other straight edge people can be so militant about it. You want to see people you like and respect respect themselves and do the best by themselves, rather than running with the other rats and doing negative shit to themselves.
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on 2008-11-03 12:39 pm (UTC)Which is why I was so frustrated with Ellie.
Once you've looked at intoxicants or narcotics and thought, "Hell, no. I'm not touching that shit and doing that to myself!" to renedge on that feels so deeply illogical and frankly, really dumb. That's why I, and probably a lot of other straight edge people can be so militant about it. You want to see people you like and respect respect themselves and do the best by themselves, rather than running with the other rats and doing negative shit to themselves.