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For thousands of years human existence, society made adjustments based on effects of observed harmful activities and habits, and codified them in the form of taboos and myths to pass them down to future generations. This happened without embarking on formal studies.

My argument is that collective human intuition is good enough in many cases to avoid harming society, we are the evidence, because our ancestors survived

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This is the very definition of survivor bias. Just because being afraid of the dark used to be evolutionarily benefitial, doesn't mean we need to continue being afraid.

And yet succumbing to uncontrolled drug use for you means less likelyhood for your descendants to experience this survival bias themselves.

Uhhh I guess it just works this way for some reason, what could it be?

Survivor bias is literally an integral component of evolution.

However, I agree that all options should be questioned.

>My argument is that collective human intuition is good enough in many cases to avoid harming society, we are the evidence, because our ancestors survived

The same human intuition that has repeatedly led to things like slavery and genocide?

Sometimes fighting against our intuition is exactly what's needed. A lot of our instincts are bad but our only saving grace is that we can sometimes think our way out of them.

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