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I stopped reading after the lead: > If you wonder why America is in the grips of a heroin epidemic that kills two hundred people a week About 3,000 people die
by joering2 10y ago
I stopped reading after the lead:
> If you wonder why America is in the grips of a heroin epidemic that kills two hundred people a week
About 3,000 people died today and about 60,000 got seriously injured in car accidents TODAY, according to ASIRT. I think the word "grips" is a bit of stretch here, no?
> take a hard look at the legalization of pot, which destroyed the profits of the Mexican cartels.
How is that legalizing sales of Apples will somehow made Oranges' lovers to switch? Hard to believe. Any proof of that??
- placeybordeaux 10y agoWell you stopped reading at a bad point for a silly reason.
- mjevans 10y agoYou stopped reading too soon. This is like a train-wreck of unintended consequences.
- devopsproject 10y agoMultiple people working on multiple things. Tesla is trying to solve the car death problem, others are trying to stop deaths from super potent mexican heroin. Both are noble pursuits and will save thousands of lives.
- thenewwazoo 10y ago> I think the word "grips" is a bit of stretch here, no? No, because there isn't a $50bn domestic and >$10bn international market in car deaths. There isn't a massive machine that perpetuates car deaths; indeed, quite the opposite. > Hard to believe. Any proof of that?? Yes: a 40% drop in profits from marijuana, and a corresponding spike in the rate of production (and because supply/demand, a drop in the price) of heroin in (and from) Mexico. You really should have kept reading.
- triplesec 10y agoI forget he name of the fallacy you are committing but it is some kind of a decoy or red herring one, whereby you are attempting to deny the problem is real because of another problem you hold is more important.