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If you watch Joe Rogan you'll often hear something like "if only more people took psychedelics, the world would be a much better place". There are places, like
by monieseee 7y ago
If you watch Joe Rogan you'll often hear something like "if only more people took psychedelics, the world would be a much better place".
There are places, like Peru, where psychedelics were in widespread usage for a thousand years. Yet Peru is not associated with an utopia, the best place to be on Earth, or anything of that sort.
- mistermann 7y agoThis is somewhat suggestive, but due to a massive amount of other variables involved, for it to be more conclusive you'd want to compare to another extremely similar country with minimal usage (or, spawn an alternate universe).
- BlueGh0st 7y agoI'm not sure if it's constructive to dispel super vague opinions with logical fallacies. In fact, I'm not sure what the point of the comment was at all, in retrospect.
- newnewpdro 7y agoThe world can be a much better place while still being nowhere near a utopia. There's a lot of ground to cover between the status quo and such an ideal.
- wutbrodo 7y agoSure, and claims that socialized healthcare systems don't wreck the economy are definitively falsified by the existence of Cuba. Or....the counterfactual isn't "arbitrary country without socialized healthcare (or history of psychedelic use)" , it's a hypothetical Cuba minus socialized healthcare (or a hypothetical Peru minus psychedelic use). Your conclusion is not remotely how basic logic works.