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A Moral Defense of Recreational Drug UseHarm-Based Arguments

A Moral Defense of Recreational Drug Use: Harm-Based Arguments [In this chapter and the next, I evaluate nonreligious harm-based arguments against recreational drug use. Again, harm-based arguments ground the wrongness of recreational drug use in a claim about the harm it involves. What differentiates one harm-based argument from another is the type of harm recreational drug use is claimed to involve as well as the alleged subject of the harm. As for the type of harm, it is usually claimed that recreational drug use is physically, psychologically, or socially (including economically) harmful. As for the subject of the harm, it is typically claimed that recreational drug use is harmful to the user (self-regarding harm) or to someone other than the user (other-regarding harm). In this chapter, I evaluate harm-based arguments that focus on self-regarding harm.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Moral Defense of Recreational Drug UseHarm-Based Arguments

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Palgrave Macmillan US
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© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2015
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978-1-349-55249-8
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33 –65
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10.1057/9781137528681_2
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[In this chapter and the next, I evaluate nonreligious harm-based arguments against recreational drug use. Again, harm-based arguments ground the wrongness of recreational drug use in a claim about the harm it involves. What differentiates one harm-based argument from another is the type of harm recreational drug use is claimed to involve as well as the alleged subject of the harm. As for the type of harm, it is usually claimed that recreational drug use is physically, psychologically, or socially (including economically) harmful. As for the subject of the harm, it is typically claimed that recreational drug use is harmful to the user (self-regarding harm) or to someone other than the user (other-regarding harm). In this chapter, I evaluate harm-based arguments that focus on self-regarding harm.]

Published: Nov 30, 2015

Keywords: Moral Status; Cognitive Capacity; Illegal Drug; Football Player; Recreational Drug

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