A pill party just sounds unbelievably stupid and reckless. If you're going to use chemical substances you should at the very least know what you are taking.
I've not noticed too much peer pressure about alcohol or drugs, although I drink so I don't have to say no completely. It probably also depends on what circles you move in, I'm not a party person. Peer pressure can come into play for other things too, like sex or whatever else. If you don't want to be part of those things, you need to say so.
This comes back to what I was talking about in my Eurofurence report, there's a need for furs to develop self-acceptance and inner strength. If you don't drink, you need to accept who you are and say, "I don't drink. If you want to drink that's fine but if I am here, I won't." And then you need to be able to leave the situation if it is going against your personal values.
I'm not sure what the best way to cultivate that inner strength is and I wonder if there's a way to measure it easily. I might think that furs feel different already and so would find it even harder to go against people that already are offering them some sort of acceptance.
"If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."
~John Stuart Mill~
A pill party just sounds unbelievably stupid and reckless. If you're going to use chemical substances you should at the very least know what you are taking.
I've not noticed too much peer pressure about alcohol or drugs, although I drink so I don't have to say no completely. It probably also depends on what circles you move in, I'm not a party person. Peer pressure can come into play for other things too, like sex or whatever else. If you don't want to be part of those things, you need to say so.
This comes back to what I was talking about in my Eurofurence report, there's a need for furs to develop self-acceptance and inner strength. If you don't drink, you need to accept who you are and say, "I don't drink. If you want to drink that's fine but if I am here, I won't." And then you need to be able to leave the situation if it is going against your personal values.
I'm not sure what the best way to cultivate that inner strength is and I wonder if there's a way to measure it easily. I might think that furs feel different already and so would find it even harder to go against people that already are offering them some sort of acceptance.
"If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."
~John Stuart Mill~