So assailed are we by reports of harmful pleasures, and of the coercive male will being imposed through lust, that it comes as a relief to be reminded, in such style, of consensual joy.
These laws assume unearned pleasure is harmful in and of itself not a position often voiced by secular officials in a capitalist society.
It also seems to me that the capacity for pleasure renders death harmful, because death deprives the victim of the opportunity for future pleasures.
Pleasures may be false, harmful or violent if their pursuer is mistaken about the object's identity and quantity, or if there is no real cure for the irritation.
And like some other pleasures, it's addictive, shame-provoking and harmful when taken to extremes.
What's missing here is any attempt to determine whether a substance is actually harmful: Blanket bans on psychoactive drugs simply presume that chemical pleasure is inherently shady, whether or not it has health risks.
Drugs may be used before or during sex to enhance sexual pleasure, but their use may have complex and harmful physiological or cognitive side-effects, enhancing the likelihood of frequent partner change and unprotected anal sex with HIV positive partners or partners of unknown serostatus [ 19].
With muting, you might want to mute someone who tweets abusive or other types of harmful content, but don't want to give the abuser the pleasure of knowing they've gotten under your skin.
Those living with fewer resources, such as individuals living in isolation or poverty, may be more inclined to use harmful substances because of a lack of other options to experience pleasure.
Food and other pleasures are chosen to provide lust and joy, but not to an extent that is harmful for the body.
The alignment of feelings caused by useful stimuli and pleasure (and, by parallel reasoning, alignment of feelings caused by harmful stimuli and displeasure) would then follow from alignment of neural events of kinds (a) and (b).
