This "I'm not arguing this, but it could be argued" is such a waste of time. If you say it's "not so big a leap", make the argument? After all it doesn't matte

This "I'm not arguing this, but it could be argued" is such a waste of time. If you say it's "not so big a leap", make the argument? After all it doesn't matter if a leap is big or not, that's always related to the gap it needs to cross. If argument holds and you end up on the other side, it wasn't so big a leap. But it's pointless to talk how a leap is feasible instead of simply making it, leaving that as some sort of exercise for the reader. I guess it would be actually two arguments, 1.) calling sociopaths animals 2.) the equating of injecting others with something for the purpose of torturing them with injecting oneself with drugs, for the reasons and purposes people actually do that. Not sure how you would funnel the wide variety of reasons people end up addicted to drugs into something that could be compared with a single situation and motivation like that hypothetical torturer, but then again you haven't made the argument yet, so maybe you know something I overlooked.