Quote: (09-06-2016 12:29 PM)Ghost Tiger Wrote:
I have addressed it. The degree of harm caused by alcohol and tobacco is irrelevant because they're not forbidden. They have been accepted culturally. The other illicit drugs have not, ergo, they are still forbidden. This is a key difference that is either escaping you or you're deliberately ignoring it. Which is it?
"It should be forbidden because it's already forbidden", is not an argument. You wouldn't say feminism is OK because it's been accepted culturally. You wouldn't say
eating albinos is OK because it's been accepted culturally.
This thread is about what drug policy
should be, and why. We already know what it
is.
Quote:MMX Wrote:
Beast,
You lost this debate, permanently, when you stated that you don't care how many twelve year olds get high.
I don't think you understand how debates actually work.
The purpose of a debate is to present arguments, and uncover the falsehood of the opponents arguments, with the ultimate purpose of everybody (or at least the audience) coming to a state of greater enlightenment on the topic.
It's telling you chose to say
he lost the debate, and "permanently", as though it was his possession for you to seize. There are many people involved in this debate, not just him.
What you did is a logical fallacy called a "
straw man". You created this bizarre story about how his smoking weed was somehow connected to other 12 year old strangers smoking weed, and then continuously attacked that "straw man" you'd just conjured up. You should be more honest.
This is one of those situations when, in spite of our anonymity, we can all be sure of each others' age.