Scenario: It's New Year's Eve, all your friends are going to a big rave concert at which E and other pills are readily available. You've not tried them before, but you know you'll come under pressure to experiment.
Prince: This sounds very tempting, but really it's dangerous territory. If you were to take drugs, you would be abandoning your dependence on God-given reason, because your ability to think and behave rationally will be interfered with by these chemical substances. Since you do not know what the consequences might be for yourself or others it would be short-sighted and wrong to take the risk. If you do this, you will be setting a bad example to others who are younger/less mature than you are, and you would certainly regret that you'd done so, if subsequently they came to any harm. It's important to remember that, once you start down this road, it may be very difficult to stop.
Sceptic Hank: I think you all expect too much of inputs from outside yourself. You can see this with religious belief. Reference to God as the source of human reason seems to me to be a contradiction in terms - thinking is what we do for ourselves, God doesn't come into it. In the same way, popping pills whose effects are somewhat unpredictable is a very dodgy way of staying and being alive - I prefer to control what's happening to me. It's up to other people to look after themselves, but I can see how they might be influenced by pressure from their friends, or what they hear about their favourite performer, to do things that are off the wall. What bothers me as well is that most of the drug supply is controlled by crime syndicates, and prohibition has the unintended effect of strengthening them, because there can't be any public check as on cigarettes and alcohol.
Free Floater: Well, I think you're both making a fuss about something and nothing. The important thing is that people should do what they want to do. I get a buzz from a few drinks and the music - it's all so real, and when I'm dancing it's like I'm in another world. From what I hear about the sweeties, it all becomes so much more real so I'll feel the vibrations even deeper. I may feel a bit hung-over in the morning, but it'll be worth it I think the risks people talk about are greatly exaggerated. I'm up for it tonight it's not as though it'll cost as much as a hiring a video.
Luvalot: Yes it does sound tempting. I believe it's important not to lump all the different drugs together, as though coffee and cigarettes and whisky and aspirin are the same. So I can see that hard drugs like heroin and cocaine are a dangerous breed to be avoided like the plague. Whereas, pot and pills don't threaten the same death penalty, so maybe it'll be ok for me to try them out. The trouble is, I can't be sure these soft drugs are all as safe as they're cracked up (sorry) to be. I hear tell there's evidence of long term side effects, such as loss of concentration, dulling of social sensitivities and public loyalties, and growing dependence. I don't want to be a kill-joy. Being Christian is supposed to bring laughter, not complaining. I'm glad my deepest happiness doesn't depend on whether I do or don't pop pills.