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> Never. Why would one stop? It is a good thing to stop people from doing bad things. > It's not a moralization that drugs are bad for you. It's an objective me
by lost_my_pwd 12y ago
> Never. Why would one stop? It is a good thing to stop people from doing bad things.
> It's not a moralization that drugs are bad for you. It's an objective medical fact of injuries to the body, psyche, collateral damage to bystanders etc.
Overeating, sitting at a desk all day, consuming alcohol, smoking, tanning, etc. all can negatively impact an individual's health. Should those activities, and many more, also be banned?
Acting morally is an important thing, yes, but the problem is that there is no one definition of morality. How should we all behave? By your standards? By mine? The superset of everyone's personal concept of morality would allow and prohibit pretty much everything all at once.
One reasonable(?) baseline for morality could be the golden rule: don't do things that will hurt others or prevent others from freely living their life — i.e. don't murder, injure or enslave others, steal, etc. Or... don't be a dick.
The world is not black and white; it's black and grey.