Am I the only one who believes the new “Anti-Drug” commercials are some of the most self-righteous not to mention ineffective means of trying to alter human behavior? 

A typical new ad runs something like this.  It sets up the scenario of a little boy waiting for his older brother to pick him up.  As he waits and waits, a voice comes over “Just tell him you were off with your friends getting stoned and forgot him.”

This method of altering behavior uses a classic leftist method:  guilt, specifically guilt for not living up to your obligations to other people.  This has to be one of the most ineffective methods of altering human behavior.  How about this for an anti-drug:  the moral condemnation of drug use.

Imagine you are a 16 yr old kid.  You dabble in and out of drugs.  Which do you think will get through to you:  a bunch of self righteous commercials telling you that you are failing to perform your duties to your brother, family, swim team, etc.?  Or how about a strong, parental figure coming in and stating, in clear moral terms, that drug use is wrong and forbidden in the household you are living in?

It has been proven over and over again that the latter method is effective.  The former is not.  It’s that simple. 

The leftist mantra of the past 40 years or so is that morals are innately oppressive.  Just do whatever you want to do in your own life and don’t you dare judge other people.  You cannot say that one behavior is “right” or as another as “wrong.”  I mean, come on, what are you – some kind of judgmental jerk or something?

But after years of drug and sexual experimentation, it becomes obvious that certain behaviors are undesirable.  But, never fear, leftists will never – ever – morally judge something!

So instead of simply stating, “these things are wrong” in a declarative way not a suggestive way, leftists need to rely on all sorts of bizarre methods to guide human beings.  They are, of course, ineffective.  Begging, suggesting, and attempting to guilt people, especially children, does not change their behavior.  Declaring, stating, and enforcing does. 

How about this for a new anti-drug advertisement.  Morals:  The Anti-Drug.