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The "free candy" approach doesn't take into account the part where some of these drugs literally unwire self control in the user, that is they lose their abilit
by all2 2y ago
The "free candy" approach doesn't take into account the part where some of these drugs literally unwire self control in the user, that is they lose their ability to choose whether they do a drug or not and lose any agency they once had. There's a reason highly addictive drugs should be tightly controlled.
- Terr_ 2y agoYeah: There's some very interesting philosophical territory in there about what situations and choices are actually voluntary, and which ones are essentially a kind of biochemical slavery that the person needs to be liberated from.