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- Path: sparky!uunet!acd4!TEFS1!wdo
- From: wdo@TEFS1.acd.com (Bill Overpeck)
- Subject: Re: Yet more unsubstantiated stuff from Nyikos
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.205311.28467@acd4.acd.com>
- Sender: news@acd4.acd.com (USENET News System)
- Organization: Applied Computing Devices, Inc., Terre Haute IN
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 20:53:11 GMT
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- In <1992Nov07.073010.101799@watson.ibm.com> margoli@watson.ibm.com
- (Larry Margolis) writes: >
- In <1992Nov2.195513.1120@acd4.acd.com> wdo@TEFS1.acd.com
- (Bill Overpeck) writes: >>
- In <1992Oct31.183332.4838@cs.yale.edu> rescorla@rtnmr.chem.yale.edu
- (Eric Rescorla) writes: >>>
-
- >>>You seem to fail to understand that the reason that cocaine is
- >>>expensive is because it is illegal. If one were able to get
- >>>cocaine at low prices, this sort of thing would not happen. You'd
- >>>just have people taking lots of cocaine. That doesn't concern me,
- >>>really.
- >
- >>It wouldn't have mattered if it were *free*, Eric. This guy has
- >>two daughters who watch as he systematically destroys his life,
- >>his marriage, and his relationship with them. He cannot keep
- >>a job, so he stays home and "watches" his two-year old while
- >>nearly catatonic. The divorce is pending, btw.
- >
- >Then his problem is addiction, not drug use.
-
- Not according to him. He thinks his problem is stress.
-
- >I know people who've done the
- >same thing due to addiction to motorcycles, computers, ...
-
- Me too. The difference in those situations is that the
- individual *can* be available to those around him/her if
- warranted.
-
- >>Scientific investigation, as I'm sure you'll agree, has a few
- >>redeeming qualities for the improvement of our civilization. I
- >>simply can't think of any for recreational drug use.
- >
- >Why does it have to have "redeeming qualities for the improvement
- >of our civilization"? *Most* recreational activities don't.
-
- Um, I wasn't the one who decided to compare drug use to science.
-
- Bill
-