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But! all those are weak neurotoxics. We might have evolved to get "high" on consumming weak neurotoxics to avoid infections (some mammals, who also happen to ha
by orwin 4y ago
But! all those are weak neurotoxics. We might have evolved to get "high" on consumming weak neurotoxics to avoid infections (some mammals, who also happen to have parasitic issues, like cats, do the same). Drug consumming seems to be highly evolutive, even if we do not need it with modern medicine.
- Vt71fcAqt7 4y agoI wish you would have addresses some of the specific points I made about the lower dosages and most importantly about avilablity of these drugs in Europe and Africa but I think I see your point: getting high servers as a reward for consuming neurotoxics that act to avoid infections. Even if this is true, there may not be an intrinsic drive to find and consume these drugs, but only to continue to consume them once found. In any case, this argument wouldn't apply to cocaine or heroin, because those are almost definitely not evolutive. They are hacks that bypass the evolutionary reward system. They cant be evolutive because they serve no evolutionary purpose and were definitely not available in Africa. But my main point is tgere is not "get high" drive in humans (at least before innitial consumption) whereas there are inate evolutionary drives to play physical games, eat, and be in the sun: that is to say, before ever being exposed, an innate (and useful) addiction.