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I think charity is limited to addressing symptoms of a problem and not the problem itself. Would you agree with this @"DiegoT"

Bravo. Kudos for your contributions and being a realist. :praise:

I feel as though this is just changing the axioms or premises for the framing condition to only "actualize" a certain fact into a framing condition fo...

If this answers your question, then credit has made this issue redundant. Although, as far as I'm aware, credit cannot be discharged even through bank...

Yeah, so my point seems to be that descriptions or more aptly states of affairs are as important as individuals, as individuals cannot exist without d...

This isn't necessarily so. Or is it, according to Kripke? Well, I tend to take quantification of particulars (like the house) as representative of ass...

Yeah; but, quantification can occur across possible words, so meta-logically you could even have states of affairs as obtaining (not instantiating) fo...

Okay... Haha.

That's actually a good question. Does anyone want to address it?

But, we're talking about validity, so arguments can rest now.

Great, so maybe we can talk about validity(?) Is it healthy to be a drug user? Again, the consensus seems to point towards a flat 'no'.

That's not even an argument, is it? Sure, I can hold the belief that Earth is flat; but, that just doesn't make it so.

Forgive me, but you sound like one of those flat-earthers that insist that their opinion is valid even if science proves them wrong countless times. I...

Ok, clear conscious. I want to also thank again, @"Baden", @"jamalrob", @"Michael" also. I'm sorry that I haven't mentioned you.

Unenlightened does a lot of undercover moderating. He's like the heavy water in nuclear reactors that prevents it from melting down.

The Cynic is rational in her own way. She has reasons. Virtue above all else.

What do you think about my previous post?

One thing that I should amend in regards to the OP, is that the Cynic doesn't do his or her "own thing" with a sense of non-conforming manner of rebel...

I think it is universally accepted that drugs that are habit-forming are bad stuff. Let's call a spade a spade, not a gardening tool?

Apart from getting and more importantly maintaining a job, I look forward to taking my mom on a trip to Catalina Islands on a cruise ship. Something a...

So, you agree that heroin, methamphetamine, and cocaine have no use to people due to their addictive nature? One doesn't just walk into Mordor unnotic...

We, Westerners, have the luxury to conform "society" in many cases to our wants. One can live in an ashram, or next to some pond near Walden without u...

But, how? Drugs are addictive? How do you moderate their use on an individual level?

So, in my own words, you're the whole premise is that it's immoral to prevent one from being able to indulge in any drug because it's limiting one's f...

I'm a little slow. What was your point again?

@"Banno" This paper delves into the meter-rule. Let me know if you find it of any use.

Are you a philosophy grad student? Sorry, I had to ask due to my inferiority complex on this forum of not being a formally trained philosopher but an ...

Hey, @"Snakes Alive", @"Pierre-Normand", @"andrewk", and @"Banno" I found an enlightening text specifically in regards to Kripke's NN and the de re/de...

So, I have no idea what is your point here. I want to have my cake and eat it too? Usually, I don't know people addicted to drugs that can moderate th...

Yeah, but it's a realistic way to address the issue. Talking about what Kant would have wanted to Jeremy Bentham's satisfied pig doesn't lead us anywh...

Usually, you find that fact out the hard way, with habit-forming drugs. Or your closest friend tells you to need to sign up for rehab over your benzod...

OK, but we live in a world where we usually have some responsibilities and duties to perform, like work or education. Habit forming drugs, even cannab...

Fine, then. How much is enough? Once, twice, a hundred times? I think, that once you get the message to put the phone down, as they used to say back i...

So, on what grounds do you disagree? That satisfying an urge (again what's the urge all about here?) to take a drug isn't morally impermissible? I alr...

I don't get what you're trying to say here. Is it that you disagree or agree? You've indicated both as far as I'm aware. And nobody is a nutjob for ma...

Wallows just rolls around in his shit all day long, and sometimes thinks he can post something philosophical. It's a simple and good life, as the Cyni...

I don't think that's what I'm trying to imply here. My point exactly, if you care, is showing that drug taking isn't pragmatic if you want a framework...

This isn't even comparable. Doing heroin, meth, cocaine, and other drugs doesn't even fall in the same category as "skiing, sailing, abseiling, skydiv...

But, what's the point, again? To fill a hole in one's soul? To escape from reality for a brief while? Again, it's a psychological and sociological iss...

It's loaded for good reason, though.

I think, there is a consensus among people, and even users themselves, that smoking crack, doing meth or doing heroin does one no amount of good. No, ...

Well, yeah, "resort". What else do you think I mean or ought to say?

I don't know, there really isn't anything meaningful about taking meth or indulging in crack. Please keep in mind that I live in California, where wee...

What prejudice? I merely am asking what is the reason one has to resort to XYZ to have a fun time?

I guess so. What is it?

So, when we talk about possible worlds, and specifically make stipulations about counterfactuals, then we are restricted to the domain of the actual w...

I believe the point I'm trying to make is the following and bears some semblance to the Barcan Formula in restricting the domain of truth-aptness to t...

What's your take on the Barcan Formula?

This depends on whether you are an actualist or possibilist for QML. Again, I am professing an actualist interpretation of QML. If you assume my posit...