I agree with you there isn’t any law of the universe here, although, for whatever reasons, many people actually do seem to believe drugs that make you feel good now must make you feel bad later, and the later badness is at least equal to the goodness experience. Maybe this is borne out by people’s experiences of hangovers, not sure. But yeah, there’s no obvious reason for this to be true. If there is, we should look for a neurological and evolutionary explanation.
Nor does it seem it is true: i’m fairly confident the odd pint increases my well-being overall and than i’ve taken painkillers that have removed unhappiness without making me feel worse again later.
On precautionary principles, my thought is we should look at the evidence before collapsing into a moral panic. It’s not like we’re uncertain about fentanyl’s safety, we know it’s pretty potent (used to be an elephant tranquiliser, etc.). And we should consider the counterfactuals, too. I don’t have a line on exactly what should be legalised and i think it’s worth thinking through.
I hadn’t occurred to me to pitch this directly of OPP. My plan was to put it up here so others could see if/where I’d gone wrong as the first step.
Hello, and thanks!
I agree with you there isn’t any law of the universe here, although, for whatever reasons, many people actually do seem to believe drugs that make you feel good now must make you feel bad later, and the later badness is at least equal to the goodness experience. Maybe this is borne out by people’s experiences of hangovers, not sure. But yeah, there’s no obvious reason for this to be true. If there is, we should look for a neurological and evolutionary explanation.
Nor does it seem it is true: i’m fairly confident the odd pint increases my well-being overall and than i’ve taken painkillers that have removed unhappiness without making me feel worse again later.
On precautionary principles, my thought is we should look at the evidence before collapsing into a moral panic. It’s not like we’re uncertain about fentanyl’s safety, we know it’s pretty potent (used to be an elephant tranquiliser, etc.). And we should consider the counterfactuals, too. I don’t have a line on exactly what should be legalised and i think it’s worth thinking through.
I hadn’t occurred to me to pitch this directly of OPP. My plan was to put it up here so others could see if/where I’d gone wrong as the first step.