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- Title
Why Recreational Drug Use Is Immoral.
- Authors
Timothy Hsiao
- Abstract
This paper argues for two claims. First, recreational drug use is immoral because it undermines cognitive functioning. Second, for similar reasons, the state has a prima facie public policy interest in enacting legal restrictions on recreational drug use. In this context, "recreational drug use" refers to activities in which a person uses some intoxicating substance to impair, destroy, or otherwise frustrate the functioning of his cognitive faculties for the sake of pleasure or enjoyment.
- Subjects
DRUG abuse; DRUG abuse policy; DRUGS of abuse; PHYSIOLOGICAL effects of drug abuse?; COGNITIVE ability; ETHICS; GOVERNMENT policy
- Publication
National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly, 2017, Vol 17, Issue 4, p605
- ISSN
1532-5490
- Publication type
Article