Feel free to ask me (almost) anything. I'm not very interesting, but here are some possible conversation starters.
I'm a licensed substance abuse counselor and a small business owner (I can't give away too many specifics about the business without making my identity easy to find, sorry about this.)
I'm a transhumanist, but mostly pessimistic about the future.
I support Seasteading-like movements (although I have several practical issues with the Thiel/Friedman Seasteading Institute.
I'm an ex-liberal and ex-libertarian. I was involved in the anti-war movement for several years as a teenager (2003-2009). I've read a lot of "neoreactionary" writings and find their political philosophy unconvincing.
My take on drug abuse is that it isn't primarily the drugs themselves that are the problem but the user. That is to say the drugs have powerful and harmful effects, but the buck ultimately stops with the user who chooses to imbibe them. As physically addictive as some drugs can be, not everyone will; A) Be addicted if they try it once, and, B) Actually want to use the drug to begin with. It's the people who are depressed, self-harming, etc, who have drug problems. I think my point can be easily confused so i'll give an analogy: a magnetic sea mine is terribly destructive and can blow me to pieces (swap for drugs), but being a human of flesh and blood (swap for healthy life and psychology), there will be no magnetic attraction and we won't be drawn towards each other. On the other hand if I was a steel ship (depressed, etc), the magnet will be drawn to me and devastation will be the result. To recap again in one sentence; the mainstream point of view seems to be that drugs are like a virus which can effect anyone and are the problem in themselves where as I see the users as the 'problem' and the drugs as one (of many) destructive outcomes of this. My question is basically; do you agree with the above?
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Why are you pessimistic about the future?
What are your practical issues about the Seasteading Institute? My major issue is that even if everything else works, governments are unlikely to tolerate real challenges to their authority.
What political theories, if any, do you find plausible?
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