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"Drugs, if taken properly, are no harm".

Correct in theory, but we universally agree that illicit drugs can be damaging to your life. -- even in some cases taking them not seriously enough can cause addiction and serious issues stemming from that.

We just need to figure out if Facebook/Twitter/Youtube are paracetamol, codeine, vicodin, cocaine or heroin.



We should also try and figure out why certain, much more damaging drugs than the ones you listed, are permitted while those that you did are not.

>> we universally agree that illicit drugs can be damaging to your life

We absolutely do not.


Always happy to hear other perspectives, but I genuinely don't think I've ever heard someone say "drugs cannot damage your life in any way". I would be pretty surprised if more than 1% of people believe this.


Clearly social media is alcohol: normalised everywhere as the means of socialisation.


We definitely do not universally agree whether cocaine should be illegal. Drugs are a good analogy though because they can be used to improve life or misused with very bad outcomes. Tarring all instances with the same brush, or expecting every user to experience them the same way, are both mistakes that shouldn't be applied to drugs or SM.




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