The future and current younger generation deserve far better than what the alleged wise and best minds of a degenerated population can offer. A poisoned seeds grows into a sick plant.
Coherence is born of purity in body and thus mind.
Buddhists know this, as do many other religions and philosophies. Only bodily purity gives the mind a clean well. Sanity is impossible in a body full of poison, and social harmony and sustainable cultures need sane populations. All the animals, including ourselves, and the suffering they experience at our hands are caused by our detachment from natures laws, most especially our cultured obsession of interfering with our body chemistry which prevents us from experiencing what our bodies really want us to do. Being straight-edge is about finding joy in what life gives,without the dogma of religion and other cutural trappings.