After reviewing some literature on empathogen-entactogens, and their role in certain subcultures, I thought about how I explain myself to my peers.
If one regards as life's greatest good / pleasure / opportunity ... some X ... then, it is perfectly reasonable to develop one's own constitution, with specific supplements, to maximise one's quantity of experience of X. Economics entails there is an opportunity cost of course. Some XAs are mutually exclusive with some XBs ... for example where,
... XA includes : the company of others, sex, the consumption of food, music, the experience of travel, fashion, and culture
... XB may then be : time for studying, via reading or other methods, research, and development of anything, including but not limited to commercial ventures
While on specific occasions I have no specific reason to avoid XA, or when XA necessarily supports XB, then XA is a legitimate short-term optimisation target. However, most of the time, XA is regarded as a distraction from XB, and so anything that creates more preference for XA is simply a distraction from the preexisting preference to maximise XB.
Scarcity mentalities are quite useful when the nature of life is finite. The dismal science is thus named for that reason.
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