A bias against drugs is very different from “drugs are always bad”. It’s very reasonable to say “I’d prefer not to mess with my body via fairly blunt chemical intervention, but there are lots of exceptions for specific cases where the risk is worth it”.
Not taking drugs IS better, in the median case of a drug being offered to you. It’s just that the variance is wide—sometimes it’d be extremely bad (say, narcotics before a road-trip), sometimes it’s quite good (antibiotics when you have pneumonia). Often it’s less clear, and having a default position against this kind of intervention is probably OK.
A bias against drugs is very different from “drugs are always bad”. It’s very reasonable to say “I’d prefer not to mess with my body via fairly blunt chemical intervention, but there are lots of exceptions for specific cases where the risk is worth it”.
Not taking drugs IS better, in the median case of a drug being offered to you. It’s just that the variance is wide—sometimes it’d be extremely bad (say, narcotics before a road-trip), sometimes it’s quite good (antibiotics when you have pneumonia). Often it’s less clear, and having a default position against this kind of intervention is probably OK.