The illegal drug trade inflicts massive misery on the world, just look at what the drug gangs in Mexico do. A person’s willingness to add to this misery to increase his short-term pleasure in a manner that also likely harms his health is, for me a least, a huge negative signal about him.
This would seem to be a good argument for not paying taxes or helping the US government, or in particular an argument for excluding employees of the FBI, CIA, and DEA, since they are the institutions that have engaged in active violence to cause and perpetuate this situation. It doesn’t seem like a plausible argument that it’s wrong to take illegal drugs, except in the “there is no ethical consumption under capitalism” sense.
I have to say, your extreme/rigid opposition to any form of whatever you’re currently defining as ‘illegal drugs’ reminds me of religious people who have similarly rigid and uncompromising views on things.
Ironically, this also seems to me to be antithetical to rationality...
I’m curious where you’re getting this from. What’s your evidence?
The illegal drug trade inflicts massive misery on the world, just look at what the drug gangs in Mexico do. A person’s willingness to add to this misery to increase his short-term pleasure in a manner that also likely harms his health is, for me a least, a huge negative signal about him.
This would seem to be a good argument for not paying taxes or helping the US government, or in particular an argument for excluding employees of the FBI, CIA, and DEA, since they are the institutions that have engaged in active violence to cause and perpetuate this situation. It doesn’t seem like a plausible argument that it’s wrong to take illegal drugs, except in the “there is no ethical consumption under capitalism” sense.
I have to say, your extreme/rigid opposition to any form of whatever you’re currently defining as ‘illegal drugs’ reminds me of religious people who have similarly rigid and uncompromising views on things.
Ironically, this also seems to me to be antithetical to rationality...