[saubeidl]

Can broccoli compete with heroin? Why don't we offer people both and see what they like better? Let them compete! Give people choice!

[CWuestefeld]

Who gets to decide where to draw the line?

[s1mplicissimus]

Well when I grew up in the early days of the internet, the plan was to have it decided by a democratically elected government that acts in good faith.

Since that didn't seem to work I'm kinda out of ideas as well

[woooooo]

Setting aside the bad analogy, real people are much more likely to eat broccoli than to do heroin.

[saubeidl]

Once they've had a taste of both?

[woooooo]

I am confident that the number of broccoli eaters exceeds the number of heroin users.

[saubeidl]

I would posit that is because many more people have had a taste of broccoli than of heroin.

[keybored]

You would posit based on what? Defunct rats-pressing-pleasure-button studies?

Many people have had "heroin" in the form of morphine in the hospital. They don’t turn into morphine-seekers.

Addiction and pleasure seeking is more complex than having a taste and then being hooked forever. Of course many people can't get out of this Skinner Box type of mindset.