Comment · Tue, April 2, 2013
young children doing drugs
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Brainsailor · 13 points
The other day I met someone who claimed to start smoking weed at the age of four. I'm sure that was bullshit, but it made me think about the ethics of letting children/making children do drugs. What kind of drug do you think would be the best for a child? What do you think psychedelic use such as acid, shrooms, or DMT would do to a child's simplistic worldview? I've never really had a full on discussion about it, except to know that most people say it's wrong.
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DuckTruck · 1 points
Good examples, but what about something like slavery? A productive social structure cast aside because it feels wrong. The very concept of revolt and revolution relies on the emotional world existing as a social force.
Again, I am not trying to suggest that we legalize kids taking acid. I am just trying to suggest the existence of this category of social force you have been denying the existence of.
u/MisterYouAreSoDumb
Ok, you are speaking more from a morality standpoint. How can we prove that slavery feels wrong? How can we prove that certain actions go against our conscience?
Well we can't really. However, that is when people have to stand up for what they believe in and fight for it. When fact and the status quo fail us, we need to ensure our beliefs get heard. However, we also need to be careful to limit those beliefs in a factual reality.
Take Muslim extremism for example. What if someone wholeheartedly believes that a god wants women to be the property of men? How can we reconcile those passionate beliefs with the reality that it is not acceptable?
What about a parent going against proven science to raise their kid holistically? That child's health and safety are at risk due that the parent's beliefs. The beliefs are passionate, but not grounded in fact. How to we reconcile that situation? Who draws the line? Who makes the decision where belief ends and fact must begin?