I don't think that extrapolating my statement outside of it's intended realm makes for a useful argument.
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"I will criticize those who do" Sounds to me like you're okay with a sort of undiscriminating blanket criticism of this act in general. Is this the case? Criticisms of one person — given knowledge of their circumstances and manner of use — is not unreasonable.
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criticism of a class of thing is not unreasonable either.
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So in your view, is libertarianism merely an acknowledgement that legal prohibition of something like a psychoactive substance will backfire?
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libertarianism is the philosophy that the government should prohibit / punish very very few things, and only those where there is always large harm falling on people not party to a decision.
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I guess what I'm getting at is that I'm curious what you find appealing about this stance: pragmatically, philosophical, or otherwise.
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Philosophical. No one has a right to inflict their random preferences on others.
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I guess for me I take it a step further and try my best to avoid even holding those random preferences at all. To grant my peers the benefit of the doubt that only they are capable of making the right decisions for themselves, and that poor decisions can be necessary to learn.
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These preferences are not "random". They are : (a) part of a cultural / religious tradition that is between 2,000 and 4,000 years old (b) strongly correlated with good life outcomes
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