Drugs addicts may be frowned upon for evolutionary psychological reasons, but that doesn’t mean that their quality of life must be bad, especially if drugs were developed without tolerance and bad comedowns.
Drug addicts tend to be frowned upon not because they have a bad life, or even for evo-psych reasons but because their lifestyle is bad for the rest of society, in that they tend to have various unfortunate externalities
Check out the wireheading tag. Mainly because:
Happiness is not the only terminal value that is important
Drug addicts are frowned upon
Doubts about whether a state of permanent bliss is even possible (i.e. will it get boring or need to be ratcheted up)
Drugs addicts may be frowned upon for evolutionary psychological reasons, but that doesn’t mean that their quality of life must be bad, especially if drugs were developed without tolerance and bad comedowns.
Drug addicts tend to be frowned upon not because they have a bad life, or even for evo-psych reasons but because their lifestyle is bad for the rest of society, in that they tend to have various unfortunate externalities