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So you’re saying it’s a fallacy because Singapore and Taiwan are filled with high functioning heroin users? Draw a line on a bellcurve, the people on the right

So you’re saying it’s a fallacy because Singapore and Taiwan are filled with high functioning heroin users? Draw a line on a bellcurve, the people on the right can use drugs safely without destroying their lives the people on the left cannot. GP is saying that for hard drugs, that line is a little to far to the right to sustain a clean and safe society so we should ban them all together. That might not be a reasonable option for western countries but lets not act like acknowledging that is a fallacy.

freedomben 3y ago
> So you’re saying it’s a fallacy because Singapore and Taiwan are filled with high functioning heroin users? No, I'm not saying that at all. I have no idea the makeup of Singapore and Taiwan. I am saying that you can't take a heavily biased sample and make conclusions about the entire population. This is a well accepted reality in statistics. It's deeply unscientific and can lead to horrendously incorrect conclusions. Then making policies on those conclusions that can lead to death and/or imprisonment of people is at best grossly irresponsible.