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I guess alcohol is a non-issue, then? Or are you restricting yourself only to some chemicals?

• cool_dude85 5y ago
  I'm sure we've all seen alcohol or illicit drug use used to further the morality tales we tell ourselves. Lead is a lot harder to do it with because it was in water or paint.
  • Gibbon1 5y ago
    If you want a morality tale it's the worst because it means a the perps were originally helpless victims themselves. The worse thing I think comes from some really old chemistry books from the early 1900's I inherited. The thing from those books is educated people back when they started putting lead in paint and gasoline absolutely knew lead caused developmental brain damage.
• Barrin92 5y ago
  Alcohol is absolutely an issue, all drug use is. I don't limit myself to 'some' chemicals. But I'm not sure exactly what you're asking, are you asking if I think drug use ought to be treated the same way, as an environmental and behavioral issue, rather than some individualistic moral guilt thing? Yes, absolutely. It's a good example actually. We've done incredible damage by moralizing drug use rather than treating it as medical issue and instead promote quackery like AA which has horrible outcomes.
  • jhgb 5y ago
    What I meant was, do the same people who have that "moralistic and individualistic worldview" and reject lead as a possible cause of things believe (or rather disbelieve?) the same things about alcohol?