(January 12, 2016 at 3:42 pm)Dystopia Wrote:(January 12, 2016 at 12:57 pm)Cato Wrote: Although I agree in principle to maximum liberty, I struggle with the idea of loosening markets to addictive drugsThe issue here is that what is addicting to someone might not be addicting to all of us. Even healthy acts like sex can become addictive. It is possible to become addicted to a lot of things. Many variables increase the likehood of addiction. There's also a difference between psychological and physical addiction. Heroin breeds physical addiction - Weed, from what my friends tell me, not so much, it's just the psychological need to feel high again that creates some sort of addiction. How are we going to determine what is addictive or not? Can I classify smartphone games as addictive as well?
An addiction to Candy Crush has a very small chance of emptying your bank account, making you lose your job, making you lose your home, and / or killing you. An addiction to heroin, on the other hand...
