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To reason about Caffeine consumption, or the consumption of any mental enhancer, one should not consider only the damages and benefits of it. But the difference between those and the ones you'd have from consuming other enhancer.
Compare it with other stuff, not just being sober, otherwise, you are falling into the fallacy of the bicameral mind. The mind that evolved to think that everything is 0 or 1.
I agree, and would go further: you should consider all possible bags of drugs, because drugs have interactions.
I don't see what "everything is 0 or 1" has to do with "bicameral mind", a phrase I've long hated, but just now found is an interesting hypothesis and not just a bit of jargon.