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You're wrong. And your metaphors are wrong. Some people like to eat for the taste, not the sustenance. Some people like to get high for the shift in perspect

by jawngee 15y ago

You're wrong. And your metaphors are wrong. Some people like to eat for the taste, not the sustenance. Some people like to get high for the shift in perspective, not to get high. Some people like to drink wine for the taste, not to get sauced. And some people do go to strip clubs for non-standard reasons. When I was going through my nude photography hobby phase, I went for inspiration and ideas. Of course, I met my wife there so I went for that as well. Some of the most "beautiful" code I've written has been under the influence. The document and video encoding system we used at massify, a self-scaling multi-format disconnected conversion cloud, was designed and built in a very stoned haze. It's been running by itself with 100% uptime and without human intervention or maintenance for 3 years now. If you haven't done drugs, then you can't really comment on them. That would be like me having a strong opinion on a topic I've never studied or have practical experience with. In fact, probably everything you know about drugs is wrong.

Evgeny 15y ago
If you haven't done drugs, then you can't really comment on them. That would be like me having a strong opinion on a topic I've never studied or have practical experience with. In fact, probably everything you know about drugs is wrong. That doesn't sound right. What if I put it this way: "If you haven't got cancer then you can't really comment on it. In fact, probably everything you know about cancer is wrong." But in fact cancer is being studied by people who don't have it - should they not be allowed to comment on it?
- lee 15y ago
  You can't put it that way. Part of understanding the effects and experience of drug use requires the actual experience of drug use, unlike studying cancer. It's like someone criticizing the taste of a mango without ever experiencing eating a mango directly, or other life experiences like sex, having a child, riding a bike for the first time, etc... It's more like: "If you haven't ever tasted a mango, you can't really comment on the experience of it."

by jawngee 15y ago

Evgeny 15y ago

If you haven't done drugs, then you can't really comment on them. That would be like me having a strong opinion on a topic I've never studied or have practical experience with. In fact, probably everything you know about drugs is wrong. That doesn't sound right. What if I put it this way: "If you haven't got cancer then you can't really comment on it. In fact, probably everything you know about cancer is wrong." But in fact cancer is being studied by people who don't have it - should they not be allowed to comment on it?

lee 15y ago
You can't put it that way. Part of understanding the effects and experience of drug use requires the actual experience of drug use, unlike studying cancer. It's like someone criticizing the taste of a mango without ever experiencing eating a mango directly, or other life experiences like sex, having a child, riding a bike for the first time, etc... It's more like: "If you haven't ever tasted a mango, you can't really comment on the experience of it."