PHIL 146 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: High Fructose Corn Syrup, Larceny, Harm Principle
13 Jul 2017
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Szasz: takes it to the next level (deontological) If i want it at the end of the day, there is no one can keep it from me extreme. If allowed to kill yourself, can take all these risks too the pot is soooo hard to argue basically null harm in pot. Ban cigarettes social evil crazy harm in cigaretts. Trying to bypass the harm principle with informed consent if you don"t know all the information, then it"s not voluntary that"s why you can step in. Shapiro says that the standard view of addiction is bad what we actually need to do is quit thinking of addiction as a medical thing change social norms to approaching addiction sympathetic to legalization of drugs. War on drugs- because the war on drugs is so expensive (51 billion dollars per year) it might be cheaper to not invest so much or change policy so it is not so expensive to control it.
