Assignment Of Human Value

Topic : Trust

Submitted To:Lect. Pooja Kapoor

Submitted By:Shallu Tareria Roll No. 1275347 MBA 2nd Sem

Sensations provides short lived pleasure

The human brain is an extraordinarily complex and fine-tuned communications network containing billions of specialized cells (neurons) that give origin to our thoughts, emotions, perceptions and drives. Often, a drug is taken the first time by choice to feel pleasure or to relieve depression or stress. But this notion of choice is short-lived. Why? Because repeated drug use disrupts well-balanced systems in the human brain in ways that persist, eventually replacing a person's normal needs and desires with a one-track mission to seek and use drugs. At this point, normal desires and motives will have a hard time competing with the desire to take a drug. Typically it happens like this:

A person takes a drug of abuse, be it marijuana or cocaine or even alcohol, activating the same brain circuits as do behaviors linked to survival, such as eating, bonding and sex. The drug causes a surge in levels of a brain chemical called dopamine, which results in feelings of pleasure. The brain remembers this pleasure and wants it repeated.

Just as food is linked to survival in day-to-day living, drugs begin to take on the same significance for the addict. The need to obtain and take drugs becomes more important than any other need, including truly vital behaviors like eating. The addict no longer seeks the drug for pleasure, but for relieving distress.

Eventually, the drive to seek and use the drug is all that matters, despite devastating consequences. Finally, control and choice and everything that once held value in a person's life, such as family, job and community, are lost to the disease of addiction. A person who is coming down from using heroin may feel irritable as the drug leaves their body. They may even feel depressed after coming down. It's not uncommon for heroin users to use more than once in a 24-hour period to get the rush and the high again.

Since the drug affects the pleasure centers in the user's brain, their emotions may flat line in between times. After a time, the person may find that they don't have good feelings unless they are doing the heroin dance. In searching for a way to cope with or escape from negative feelings, they don't feel much of anything. The drug becomes the way for them to experience something positive in their lives. Every behavior in which an organism engages involves information from the primary senses, such as vision, hearing (audition), and touch. A number of drugs of abuse alter sensory information. Mind-altering drugs can also influence perception of time, thinking, behavior, and mood. Often abusers of these drugs experience severe depression, anxiety, paranoia, confusion, and terror. Everyday thinking of pleasure as good and as attractive may be consistent with pleasure's including very diverse experiences, perhaps having in common only that they are one or both of these. However, we often say that some things give us more pleasure than others, even where the experiences are otherwise diverse and the relevant difference does not seem one only of strength of desire. Philosophers have accordingly often taken pleasure to be a general kind or feature of experience that enters into explanations of why its instances are good or at least attractive and to what extent. Pleasure has, in this way, often been thought of as a simple uniform feature of momentary conscious experience that is obviously good in itself and consequently attractive to whoever experiences it. This simple picture of pleasure and of its effects in the mind, which seems to make self-explanatory how pleasure can be an ultimate object of correct valuing and wanting, has often been associated with more sweeping normative and psychological claims, all ambiguously called hedonism. These result from extending the explanatory use of the simple picture of pleasure (and also a similar use of a corresponding picture of pain) to (between them) explain all of human value or motivation. According to various hedonist normative claims, all human value, moral norms, or normative reasons for action

derive all their goodness and justification ultimately from pleasure and pain from which, similarly, on various hedonist motivational claims, all ends people seek, in some way or other, derive all their motivating power. Pleasure and pain would, if all such views were true, be the only ultimately good- and bad-making features of human (and relevantly similar animal) life and also the only ultimate ends of all our voluntary pursuit and avoidance

What can we do about it?

We can see that the reasons our kids use drugs are as complex and diverse as are our kids. Therefore, the solution cannot be simple. What we do about it is definitely not to squeeze a behaviour out of them by force. We cannot simply take them away from their friends or lock them away from access to drugs. We have seen that the important concern is not the removal of the solution they have discovered but solving the problem that exists. To produce as a result of our intervention, a child who is not using drugs but is still unhappy within self can be unfair to the child and a false sense of security to the parent. Remember, a child may still cease the participation in one act only to replace it with another that offers the same result of artificial, temporary well-being but is invisible to the concerned parent or authority. We must accept that a child does not use drugs or hang out with unsavoury friends because he/she is bad. There is an underlying reason. And since each reason can be the complete antithesis of another, one approach can produce a disastrous effect when applied blindly to a condition where another approach will be effective. So it is imperative for a concerned adult to discover the underlying problem. Remember, however, that by the time a child displays an affinity to a particular activity, person, or substance, that association is seen as the best friend. They will resist in fear of any attempt to take away the only thing that has offered some respite from a cruel world. So the child will mistrust any attempt that may appear to be directed at removing access to their chosen activity.

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