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Re:Legalizing Sports Gambling Was a Mistake by sandworm101 on Friday September 27, 2024 @06:39AM (#41668637)
>> Most physicians will agree that cannabis is fairly harmless in adults.

It's a recreational drug. Unless a patient needs it to counter some other malady such as for pain relief, most doctors will say that less is better and none is best.

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Re:Legalizing Sports Gambling Was a Mistake by FactKnower69 on Friday September 27, 2024 @03:49PM (#41674836)
huge lol at this post being downvoted and flagged on the libertarian tech bro site
Re:Legalizing Sports Gambling Was a Mistake by oneshtein on Saturday September 28, 2024 @01:27AM (#41678104)
It's looks like you have wrong assumptions about liberal philosophy. In liberal philosophy, price of human life is set to infinity, thus price of life of any individual (even worthless ones) is equal to price of life of any group (even top of the top).

However, unlike anarchy, any harm to human life is very costly (because value of human life is infinite!), for example: killing of someone, suicide, death because of incompetence or laziness, or self damage because of self medication, etc. are «sins» for libertarians.

Re:Legalizing Sports Gambling Was a Mistake by Elinvynia on Saturday September 28, 2024 @03:36AM (#41678597)
Libertarian != Liberal
Re:Legalizing Sports Gambling Was a Mistake by oneshtein on Saturday September 28, 2024 @04:13AM (#41678734)
Yep, libertarians are holding the middle ground between anarchy and liberal democracy, so we can use libertarians as contrary example here too.

There is no known «libertarian democracies» in the wild also, so we can assume that their philosophy is not ready for use in production. IMHO, some evolving democracies are most close to a «libertarian democracy» in some areas, because rules of play are lagging behind.

Re:Legalizing Sports Gambling Was a Mistake by oneshtein on Saturday September 28, 2024 @04:56AM (#41678934)
Yep, my mistake. However, I disagree that HN is the libertarian site.
Re:Legalizing Sports Gambling Was a Mistake by the_af on Friday September 27, 2024 @09:10AM (#41669996)
Well, most physicians will tell you the same about smoking and drinking (i.e. "less is better and none is best"), but some/many then go in their private lives and smoke and drink.

This is a thing physicians say but often don't heed themselves, and I don't think it singles out cannabis in particular.

The thing that horrifies me the most is physicians who smoke. There's an activity of which there is no safe level of doing other than "none", plus they've definitely seen what a smoker's lung looks like, and yet I've seen plenty of doctors who smoke regularly.