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Without engaging with the rest of your comment (which I'm inclined to agree with), I'm tackling this bit.
Modafinil? It's long-acting coffee as far as I'm concerned, and about as benign. I would know, I was on it, and it was a self-prescription to boot. I quit because I built up a tolerance and knew that upping doses beyond 200mg was futile. I had no issues quitting.
It has next to zero addiction potential. Patients consistently report mild euphoria once, on their very first dose, and never again no matter how much they up it. Dependency is also a non-issue in practice. You don't see junkies shooting it up on the streets, not that they'd be nodding off.
It's arson, murder and jaywalking in the flesh.
Amphetamines? Well, I do have a Totally Legitimate Diagnosis of ADHD, and while I have not had the luck of trying actual amphetamines, just Ritalin, they're not dangerous at therapeutic doses. You don't need a diagnosis of ADHD to benefit from taking them, it boosts performance for pretty much everyone, including neurotypicals or those with high conscientiousness already.
I recall Scott writing about it at length, pointing out how they're much less dangerous than popularly conceived.
https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/know-your-amphetamines
I'm all for better living through medicine, and I would, if I had a gun put to my head, say that for the modal Mottizen the benefits of taking either modafinil or therapeutic doses of outweighs the risks.
(GMC, please note that this is not medical advice, and provided under duress, I did mention being held at gunpoint. Unbelievable in a British context? Uh.. He had a very pointy umbrella)
Why is it a problem for certain professions to require safe stimulants for the highest tier of success? Your post treats the wrongness of this idea as self evident, but I don't accept it. We require that athletes train, after all.
And there it is --- the puritanical idea that people experience unavoidable suffering because suffering is good for the soul.
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