Re: The Second American Civil War

Eliezer Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Wed, 01 Jan 1997 20:57:00 -0600


> Crack is a Drug
> Crack is Evil
> Ergo, Drugs are Evil

Not at all. I don't support the Vietnam on Drugs; I support biological
warfare against Evil drugs. I won't touch asprin unless there are
squalid, miserable asprin ghettoes. I don't know enough about marijuana
to say whether or not it would be included in the vendetta; on one hand
20% of tenth graders use it, but I haven't heard horrifying reports of
anything *bad* happening to them. I haven't been listening either.

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