“As Ernest Becker observes in The Denial of Death, the very thought of disobeying authority appears to awaken the anxiety connected with the possible loss, during infancy, of parental love, respect or support. The unexamined beliefs and experiences that generate… — Daniel Waterman Copy Share Image
“I am keenly aware that the security we enjoy is frail, and could easily be disrupted. Secretly, a nagging fear gnaws at me: what… — Daniel Waterman Copy Share Image
“Being Jewish did not compromise the humanitarian and universalist ideals of my close relatives who, having experienced persecution close hand, were more concerned with… — Daniel Waterman Copy Share Image
“State sponsored medicine and science can function as ideology, inspiring blind commitment, fanatical defensiveness and denial, particularly of outcomes inconsistent with the preferred explanatory model. The social etiology of compromised health, insists on an understanding of these conditions and the way they impact the objectivity or neutrality of scientific and medical interpretation.” — Daniel Waterman Copy Share
“With drug use related harms, explanatory models are often presented as predictive tools, even though they ‘are [rarely if ever] predictive of consequent behavior’ or outcomes. Hence, we feel confident in asserting at outset, that prohibition based approaches in drug policy lack a sound basis in empirical research (despite sounding logical, i.e. remove drugs or the means of their production… — Daniel Waterman Copy Share
“if we want individuals to take responsibility for their actions we must first establish a rational, effective and empowering means of separating individual responsibility… — Daniel Waterman Copy Share Image
“Systems of retributive justice work well as long as they are proportional. However, in complex societies, where the State is the arbiter of justice,… — Daniel Waterman Copy Share Image
“A significant factor often overlooked by those considering the failure of drug policy is the general aim of deflecting or assigning responsibility away from… — Daniel Waterman Copy Share Image
“Introduction of rational standards to differentiate between acceptable and unacceptable forms of drug related conduct allows us to hold drug users fully accountable for… — Daniel Waterman Copy Share Image
“It is easier to exploit and manipulate people if they are fearful or confused, (and discouraged from trusting their own judgment). Our investigation identifies… — Daniel Waterman Copy Share Image
“Believing in the possibility of resurrection and eternal life, Christians seek ‘redemption’ through moral behaviour. But moral behaviour does not, in itself, assuage fear… — Daniel Waterman Copy Share Image
“We are particularly concerned with the question to what degree approval and implementation of an explanatory model minimising collective or institutional responsibility for certain… — Daniel Waterman Copy Share Image
“Moral ideas about what constitutes a meritorious or meaningful use of one’s life and opportunities produce specific attitudes towards drug use and intoxication.” — Daniel Waterman Copy Share Image
