It seems to me that the morality of drug use can't really be judged as one
issue at all. Drugs are used for many reasons, and the specific reason one
is using a drug can alter the affects it has on the user. That is, we can't
forget that drugs are often used simply for pleasure to escape situations of
low biological quailty, or as a tool to remove oneself from reality to
escape situations of low social quality. Both of these reasons tend to
arrest intellectual growth and replace it with pleasure. Pirsig's use of
mescaline suspended static patterns to the extent that he was able to
experience Dynamic intellectual quality more purely and easily. I would
agree that the war on drugs is immoral. Let me continue this later after I
finish working it out and referring back to what my books have to say about
this.
andrea
by the way, I'm new to this mailing list as well as mailing lists in general
and i really have no idea what I'm doing. Please forgive if I managed to
mess this up.
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