[smt88]

What if that thing is dangerous?

I can't think of many historical examples where something was already illegal when it was invented for no good reason. Can you? Maybe pharma fits that category, but no rational person would argue drugs should be legal by default...

[jdminhbg]

> I can't think of many historical examples where something was already illegal when it was invented for no good reason. Can you?

"For no good reason" is carrying a lot of water here. But because the legality is in question, all the examples you are going to get are things that are debatably legal, rather than outright illegal, like Uber. Or things that were intended to be illegal but legal via loopholes, like FedEx.

> no rational person would argue drugs should be legal by default

Plenty of rational people would, in fact, argue that.

[smt88]

By "drugs" I meant "pharmaceuticals marketed as treating illness," not recreational drugs.

Whatever someone feels about recreational drugs, there's a huge difference between freedom to put drugs in your body vs. freedom to advertise drugs for a medical purpose.

The former is (consistent with my argument) legal by default. The latter is not.

[ada1981]

I tend to think drugs should be legal.