> 1. The restaurant isn't lacing your food with cocaine
Cocaine creates a much larger chemical change in the brain and can kill you in high doses so it’s not really comparable.
> 2. The author is incentivizing reading, which is generally a good thing
Says who? Why is reading inherently a good thing?
And all of those things are regulated because they have what most consider to be objectively bad effects on the body (with metrics based on cellular harm).
Cocaine creates a much larger chemical change in the brain and can kill you in high doses so it’s not really comparable.
> 2. The author is incentivizing reading, which is generally a good thing
Says who? Why is reading inherently a good thing?
And all of those things are regulated because they have what most consider to be objectively bad effects on the body (with metrics based on cellular harm).