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all things in the world have their positives, even the worst evil

thinking about how things that are similar to "drugs" (addictive, alter your thinking pattern, quite bad for you if used excessively, make you in one way or another less rational than you should be) can be very good for you in the right context

like i think you could make an evolutionary argument that the capacity for humans to suddenly lose their mind is there for a good reason, because even if it may come at immense cost, it will in some circumstances lead to things in the long run getting better rather than worse

@hikari the rationalists have proposed this as well, "why is it that random stuff that people use to get high seem to be more effective than all the pharma psych med research?"