Well, you can't do that without empathy. You can't really empathize unless you have a connection with someone. You can't really have a connection with someone without being around them a lot.
Surrounding yourself with people who make mistakes, is just as risky as doing a drug on your own, and probably a lot worse, because where you might think you are too buzzed to drive, your friend might not, with you in the car.
Without empathy, those mistakes are attributable to idiocy. "If I was in that situation, that wouldn't have happened".
Sure reading darwin awards is great. Watching history channel, stuff about war, dangerous settings or friends, is decent exposure. Doing a drug is not that bad. Half the country's youth is on speed anyway.
Now, persistent drug use is bad. I will be the first to say that. I do not like people who do drugs. But I do like people who have the guts to experiment with them. There are far too many friends of mine who are losing their future because all they do is smoke weed and drift. But, that also comes from personal experience too.
