If someone offered to sell you these positive experiences, how much would be too much to pay?
How much would these experiences need to be worth for them to collectively outweigh the harm?
Given the violence, shortened or ended lives, diminished quality of some lives, it seems like one of these numbers, even with a rough lower bound, is much bigger than the other for me, such that careful consideration is not necessary.
Then again, maybe I should work on increasing that upper bound :D
That’s not the option though; if I stop drinking it will barely affect others’ drinking.
If it were my choice, I’d still consider carefully. Alcohol causes a whole lot of fun and random enthusiasm!
I’d be very cautious of shutting to a less fun, more staid society.
I’d want to focus on changing things to reduce harms in other ways, or making sure there were replacements for those sources of fun and funding and random enthusiasm.
If someone offered to sell you these positive experiences, how much would be too much to pay?
How much would these experiences need to be worth for them to collectively outweigh the harm?
Given the violence, shortened or ended lives, diminished quality of some lives, it seems like one of these numbers, even with a rough lower bound, is much bigger than the other for me, such that careful consideration is not necessary.
Then again, maybe I should work on increasing that upper bound :D
That’s not the option though; if I stop drinking it will barely affect others’ drinking.
If it were my choice, I’d still consider carefully. Alcohol causes a whole lot of fun and random enthusiasm!
I’d be very cautious of shutting to a less fun, more staid society.
I’d want to focus on changing things to reduce harms in other ways, or making sure there were replacements for those sources of fun and funding and random enthusiasm.