Andrew McGlashan wrote:
On 18/09/2013 10:03 PM, Trent W. Buck wrote:
Andrew McGlashan wrote:
[...] despite my view that narcotic drugs are bad and they shouldn't exist. Tell that to an anaesthetist. There are drug free ways to keep the nerves busy .... not that I've tried them, but I have never in my life hung out for laughing gas.
Gall-stones are caused when a malfunctioning gall bladder accumulates and concentrates , a liver by-product 'bile'; till the calcium salts precipitate out off solution resulting first in 'sand' then stones.When a stone get stuck in the' neck' of the gall-bladder a fairly severe pain results, currently standard treatment, prior to excision of the gall-bladder is injection of morphine-hydrochloride. The purpose of which is to relax the' neck', to allow the stone to drop back into the gall-bladder . My point being that constructive uses probably exist for all these substances which we describe as drugs: caffeine,, ethyl alcohol, opiates, amphetamines, psychedelics...... Life is a dangerous business, various ethical ends and consistent ethical injunctions are proposed; the one Sartre proposes is that we accept full responsibility for our choices, or we will be found guilty of bad-faith !. .Somewhat academic I would argue since regardless of whether one's current situation, is the consequence of one's choices or not; the problem is uniquely one's own. . This sort of debate is fairly common at the Existentialist Society; regards Rohan McLeod