I claim the answer to your 2 questions is yes. As Marcus (with the usage classes) and Steve (with behavioral "drugs") point out, the reason people engage in such things is to make their lives *better* (according to some definition of "better"). To think anything else is to risk the madness of morons like Nancy Reagan or those who think alcoholics suffer from a moral failing, rather than a physiochemical one.
You want your insulin pump to make your life better than it would be without it. Simple. Rational. As Dave pointed out, though, we have some very promising therapeutic agents that we've ignored because we've been hoodwinked by the moral proselytizing of anti-science nutbags who think like Scientologists -- Clear Body, Clear Mind and all that. On 1/2/19 11:33 AM, Nick Thompson wrote: > So is THAT the spirit in which people take psilocybin? Is that the spirit in > which people welcome the legalization of LSD? I fear I may have wronged them > horribly. To be so far from a moderately happy life to want to derange one's > entire experience for even only a few hours, seems like a terrible thing to > me. I regard sanity as an achievement, not a state of affairs into which > life naturally folds. I would no more take LSD than crumple up a piece of > paper before I put it in the printer. -- ☣ uǝlƃ ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
