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drag us down?

"Peer pressure of the wrong sort can influence us to make bad decisions and drag us down."

What does "drag us down" mean here?
Does it simply mean "gave us a bad mood"?
Or it means something like "became a bad kid", "commit crimes"...etc.?

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31-Jan-2005, 11:14

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