This generalizes quite a bit: Simple moral strictures should very rarely be the first or second consideration in your life-optimization decisions.  They certainly CAN be tiebreakers when it's a relatively close call.

For the specific, I don't actually know anyone who thinks all drugs are automatically bad.  I do know people who sloganize this way, but when pressed they tone it down to recreational and self-prescribed palliative drugs are bad.  Prescribed drugs (and, depending on the vigor of your counterpart in the discussion quasi-legal off-brand uses for a specific reason) are generally well accepted.  

Neither pro-drug nor anti-drug are coherent positions - there's just too much variance across drugs and patients to have any simple rule.

Separately, the topics of mental health and neurodivergence are not well-formed in our culture(s).  That deserves a discussion very distinct from drugs generally.

"supply and demand" is correct, but like the "calories in-out" theory of weight loss, is missing a lot of important causality about the supply and about the demand.  There are a LOT of textbooks that go much deeper - George Stigler and Milton Friedman are well-known authors on this topic.  

There's a wide range of behaviors and responses that are better framed as "protect yourself" than "seek justice" or "punish defectors".  I'd argue that the majority of thinking (for non-universal, non-government topics) should be framed in terms of exclusion to avoid costs, rather than punishment.  

Amazon should check if you're producing fraudulent products and ban you. This is because they're unusually skilled and experienced with this kind of thing, and have good info about it.

Amazon could be skilled at this kind of thing, but they're famously frugal and are optimizing for throughput, not for justice or even safety.   They do, in fact, ban sellers and customers who are significantly negative-value.  But their precision-recall balance is -way- different than a criminal investigation or personal decision of retribution would have.

Transit systems should ban non-payers, not to punish them, but to save the expense and hassle of trying to monitor them, and to prevent the waste of resources in having more people in the system who aren't contributing.  (IMO, first, ban anyone who reduces value by acting badly on a bus or train, even if they paid).

Likewise for infrastructure - the first goal is not justice, or even fairness.  It's protecting the infrastructure itself.  If someone is harming your mission, exclude them.   At some scale, if the infrastructure is an effective monopoly and is necessary for life, then the simpler exclusion mechanisms become infeasible, and more legible/coercive mechanisms (law enforcement) comes into play.   

This is one reason to prefer that infrastructure is distributed and no single piece is critical and irreplaceable for people who won't cooperate with the complex of expected behaviors in that community.  It makes it possible to exclude people, and they can find other places where they fit better (or if they piss off EVERYBODY, then maybe it's ok they don't get many services).  

#1 is purely impossible and irrelevant.

#2 and #3 depend heavily on what "trivially" and "easily" mean, and #3 for the reasons that most people have this clearly false belief.  #2 and #3 are the same states of the world, just with a slightly different mix of fools.

My main point is that the deepfakepocalypse is not itself the main or only cause of the lack of trust in video evidence.  This has been going on for a long time, and there are plenty of people who deny the veracity of some pretty-well-documented true photos from decades ago.  

It's worth separating the different concerns about "fake".  Like text, there's been plenty of staged/incorrect/fictional audios and images since the invention of each medium.  Lies are as old as speech.

The big concern recently is that the availability of this kind of media has become decentralized over the last few decades - it's no longer a small amount of publishers that earn trust by being the primary way to channel such things, clearly labeled as to whether it's fiction or not.  This is combining with ease of fakery that removes other clues as to the provenance of such things to make almost nothing trustworthy.

That strategy (assume everything is fake) removes the ability to learn about the world beyond what you personally can experience and verify.  Fairly limiting.

Can we define consciousness as memory, intelligence and metacognition tightly, reflectively integrated behind a perceptual boundary?

You can define consciousness however you like.  Whether others will agree is hard to guess - it'll depend on which bailey you're trying to defend from that motte.

There are a LOT of rules which are codification of things that should not apply in all circumstances, but which it's too complicated to define the rule to the fine-grained level that would make it universal.  Lax enforcement is one way to allow flex in rules that are best if they're directional guidance rather than clear specifications.

Speed limits on public roads, for instance - they're insanely low for good conditions (clear, dry, good visibility, competent driver in a well-functioning car).  They're somewhat low for decent conditions, they're probably too high in the worst possible case.  

There's a lot of the world that works this way - there's enough variance across participants and conditions that there is literally no legible coherent rule which maximizes any goal - it's all a compromise among averages.  

 Humans have minds, which are the things one has when one is conscious. So do animals, though exactly which ones have them is a matter of serious debate.

Do they?  I know I have a mind, but I can only guess at anyone else.  

I’m serious - until you propose an operational and testable definition which gives a specific answer in all cases, you can’t debate whether various classes of things have that property.