Authority Quote by Daniel Waterman

“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

“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

“State sponsored medicine and science can function as ideology, inspiring blind commitment, fanatical defensiveness and denial, particularly of outcomes inconsistent with the preferred explanatory…

— Daniel Waterman

“With drug use related harms, explanatory models are often presented as predictive tools, even though they ‘are [rarely if ever] predictive of consequent behavior’…

— Daniel Waterman

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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