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Originally Posted by Zigūr
I said "a pipe meant an aid to thinking", not "a pipe meant thinking."
All I meant was that Elves probably did not need an "aid to thinking" because perhaps they had clearer thoughts and greater powers of concentration than other peoples, tied to their artistic capacity for "product, and vision in unflawed correspondence".
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I got that (see the latter part of that post).
But if Smoking produced an aid to thinking, then it should produce an aid to people who can already think clearly as well, too, would it not?
Sort of like a person who has a high tolerance to pain is likely to benefit just as much from a pain-killer as a person with a low tolerance to pain.
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