You’re still comparing a real situation with an imagined one. For such a large aspect of one’s life, I do not think it possible to have such assurance that one can imagine the hypothetical situation well enough. Whatever you decide, you’re taking a leap in the dark. This is not to say that you shouldn’t take that leap, just to say that that is what you would be doing. You won’t know what the other side is really (literally! really) like until you’re there, and then there’s no going back. (As I understand it, and my understanding may be out of date, the sort of drugs you are considering have permanent effects from the outset. Even a small step down that road cannot be taken back.)
Even in the case of blindness, I have read of a case where sight was restored to someone blind from birth, who ended up very dissatisfied. Because if you’ve never seen, it takes a long time to make any sense of the restored sense. Not to the point of putting his eyes out again, I think, but there was no “happily ever after”.
You’re still comparing a real situation with an imagined one. For such a large aspect of one’s life, I do not think it possible to have such assurance that one can imagine the hypothetical situation well enough. Whatever you decide, you’re taking a leap in the dark. This is not to say that you shouldn’t take that leap, just to say that that is what you would be doing. You won’t know what the other side is really (literally! really) like until you’re there, and then there’s no going back. (As I understand it, and my understanding may be out of date, the sort of drugs you are considering have permanent effects from the outset. Even a small step down that road cannot be taken back.)
Even in the case of blindness, I have read of a case where sight was restored to someone blind from birth, who ended up very dissatisfied. Because if you’ve never seen, it takes a long time to make any sense of the restored sense. Not to the point of putting his eyes out again, I think, but there was no “happily ever after”.
But then, there never is.