sawyl | Is pleasure wrong?

Today's though comes from the concluding paragraph of Julian Baggini's philosophy briefing:

So there are reasons for not smoking dope, but they are nothing to do with it simply being pleasurable. Its main drawbacks seem to be that it shortens your life and turns you into a bore. But then so does spending all your life sitting on your arse reading philosophy.

I already knew that philosophy turns you into a bore, but I didn't realise it also shortened your life span. Oh, well, something to look forward to, I guess...