> None of this has any logical consistency, sorry.
Can you please counter any concrete logical step, instead of just dismissing it because you don't like it?
> You weren't able to provide a rational argument for why using drugs is bad - only a circular one
I stated that I consider misuse and badness to be that same thing, so no that was obviously not my argument. I told you what I consider to be the questions I would decide misuse on. Feel free to provide another definition.
> I've heard this "nature of" and "natural law" line of argument before and it's very similar
I don't expect you to agree with the philosophy of the scholastics, I only wanted to clarify my view.
> strict heterosexuality is the nature of things because you said
I think you again mistook "nature of a thing" to have a the meaning of everything the thing does do in nature. As such that would be an everything statement.
> "Natural law" / "nature of" is a meaningless word game.
No it's not. I don't accept you as the arbiter of philosophy, that just declares philosophy concepts to don't exist.
> There's no science experiment you can do to prove that, and many you can do to prove it wrong
The experiment is, do solely policy X in isolation with an isolated population. Do you like the outcome or not?
> [my definition] is indecipherable, and therefore devoid of semantic content.
Thanks. Can you please tell, what you don't understand, instead of declaring it to not have a semantic meaning?
> has created a problem of nobody knowing the slightest thing about drugs.
Could you please educate us on your mysterious knowledge about the nature of drugs? In case you somehow took that to be the case, I did not claim, that I consider any use of a drug to be misuse. I think I gave some examples in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45598978 .
I am serious. Maybe there is something lost in translation. My dictionary gives me:
disposition <n>, nature <n>, nature <n> of a person, nature <n> of a thing, temper <n>, mettle sb. is made of <n> [archaic], natural <adj>, quiddity <n>, particular nature <n> (of a matter), essence <n>, suchness <n>
The examples make me think, that English indeed does have this meaning of the word "nature", and it's only you who doesn't know this, but maybe you would prefer a different word?
Can you please counter any concrete logical step, instead of just dismissing it because you don't like it?
> You weren't able to provide a rational argument for why using drugs is bad - only a circular one
I stated that I consider misuse and badness to be that same thing, so no that was obviously not my argument. I told you what I consider to be the questions I would decide misuse on. Feel free to provide another definition.
> I've heard this "nature of" and "natural law" line of argument before and it's very similar
I don't expect you to agree with the philosophy of the scholastics, I only wanted to clarify my view.
> strict heterosexuality is the nature of things because you said
I think you again mistook "nature of a thing" to have a the meaning of everything the thing does do in nature. As such that would be an everything statement.
> "Natural law" / "nature of" is a meaningless word game.
No it's not. I don't accept you as the arbiter of philosophy, that just declares philosophy concepts to don't exist.
> There's no science experiment you can do to prove that, and many you can do to prove it wrong
The experiment is, do solely policy X in isolation with an isolated population. Do you like the outcome or not?
> [my definition] is indecipherable, and therefore devoid of semantic content.
Thanks. Can you please tell, what you don't understand, instead of declaring it to not have a semantic meaning?
> has created a problem of nobody knowing the slightest thing about drugs.
Could you please educate us on your mysterious knowledge about the nature of drugs? In case you somehow took that to be the case, I did not claim, that I consider any use of a drug to be misuse. I think I gave some examples in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45598978 .