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>As people have free will When did this become a fact?

• pmalynin 12y ago
  Let me clarify. People make a choice to buy marijuana or not to buy it. If a person decides to buy it and at the same time accepts the possible negative consequences that might arise from such activity, are free to do so. Assuming that those individuals do so in a manner that does not endanger others, there is no ethical issue at hand, that is there is no moral responsibility on the investors nor on the producers purely in the economic sense. Of course there are other venues where an "ethical" issue might arise stemming from addiction or else. But asuming rational people made the initial decision to engage in such activity there is no ethical issue as both parties agreed to a "moral contract" just as people do when they buy alcohol or tobacco. Do smokers not know the dangers their acitivty when they first decided to do so? To that I have a real life example: my biology teacher a few years back who thoroughly described the effects that smoking has (along with other drugs) and yet he admitted to smoking and he had absolutely no issue with slowly killing himself, he also paid higher insurance costs for the same reasons and once again had no issue with that because he made a rational decision. I have no desire to smoke but I recognize that others have the right to do so as long as it has no effect on myself nor the society (through higher insurance costs etc.).
• exelius 12y ago
  Free will is an assumption that we make because the opposite would render all discussion meaningless.