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Out of curiosity, does your argument also work for drugs?
by Yoric 3y ago
Out of curiosity, does your argument also work for drugs?
- nickpp 3y agoIsn't that pretty much settled already? It seems to me our society is becoming more and more permissive while giving up the previous "war on drugs" failed approach which did an incredible amount of damage.
- walr000s 3y agoIt also created and continues to create a lot of cheap labor, which the United States is in short supply of and likely will be for the foreseeable future.
- yreg 3y agoIsn't it obvious drugs have utility?
- schleck8 3y agoDepends on the drugs. If you think anyone who is reasonable in their head takes fentanyl (which is 50 times stronger than heroin and can be incredibly easily overdosed on because they are packaged in 24 hour slow release plasters and additionally is either stolen from the healthcare system, sometimes actually ripped off from elderly patients, or bought from mexican drug cartels) then you'd be wrong.
- singleshot_ 3y agoFentanyl is an FDA-approved analgesic. I would guess that the reasonable person who is prescribed fentanyl takes it.
- schleck8 3y agoFentanyl is a last resort painkiller that is extremely heavily regulated in other countries and prescribed for things like tumor pain and heavy burns. It's not a regular painkiller, it's a narcotic. If you dose it high enough it can be used during anesthesia.
- singleshot_ 3y agoYes, everyone knows all of this. My point stands: people who are prescribed fentanyl typically take it.
- hsbauauvhabzb 3y agoPeople get high from drugs, thus drugs have utility. Your opinion on the validity or ethics of that utility has no impact on the fact that for some people they have utility.