If an Artist/Writer/Composer/Poet uses drugs, is he/she cheating?

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Stephen R

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As a poet, I feel he/she is. I have found my inspiration in my own creativity, which I have worked hard for.

If an athlete is found to have used performance-enhancing drugs in competition, he/she it is considered shameful, and is stripped of any awards received.

Is it right to praise the work of artists who achieved things that they would not have been capable of without drugs?
Small, I think there was a hint of sarcasm in your answer?
 
Things like art are mostly about perception. The state of mind of the artist or the observer of the art is not necessarily right or wrong - and who has the right to consider it wrong anyway? Either you like/appreciate something or you don't.

Each to their own, but from personal experience trying to create something while intoxicated on any substance proved pointless. Attempts at pushing boundaries mostly resulted in going from rationality to a state of being drug fkd, rather than anything deep or profound
 
Art isn't a competitive field. So you cannot use the sport analogy here. If you don't like drug-inspired art, don't patronize it. plain and simple. whereas an athlete who uses drugs takes first place whether you supported him or not. If Thomas Edison was on drugs when he created the lightbulb, would it be any less of an invention? bty, Fact: Newton was on a huge load of drugs when he invented calculus. Should we stop using his invention to improve society because of it?
 
I am not aware as to what drugs have been identified and prohibited for work based on intelligence, knowledge, imagination etc. However, if not, there is indeed a strong case to identify these and ban their use by artists, researchers, literary people etc.
 
I am not aware as to what drugs have been identified and prohibited for work based on intelligence, knowledge, imagination etc. However, if not, there is indeed a strong case to identify these and ban their use by artists, researchers, literary people etc.
 
Art isn't a competitive field. So you cannot use the sport analogy here. If you don't like drug-inspired art, don't patronize it. plain and simple. whereas an athlete who uses drugs takes first place whether you supported him or not. If Thomas Edison was on drugs when he created the lightbulb, would it be any less of an invention? bty, Fact: Newton was on a huge load of drugs when he invented calculus. Should we stop using his invention to improve society because of it?
 
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