I’ve most often read/heard this argument in relation to alcohol and marijuana. Something along the lines of “if we had never had this thing and we discovered it today, would we make it legal/illegal?”
I think of it in vaguely the same category as the veil of ignorance and other simple thought experiments that encourage us to step outside of our own individualized preferences.
I’ve most often read/heard this argument in relation to alcohol and marijuana. Something along the lines of “if we had never had this thing and we discovered it today, would we make it legal/illegal?”
I think of it in vaguely the same category as the veil of ignorance and other simple thought experiments that encourage us to step outside of our own individualized preferences.