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Are you saying you think increased mushroom use will lead to a decrease in cocaine and heroin use?
Or is "better than heroin" the standard by which we decide substances should be applauded and encouraged?
Nice strawmann Argument you got there
Heroin is literally as bad as Alcohol(in terms of damage). Shrooms are so goddamn safe, that it is literally impossible to overdose in them. You might have a real fucking bad time but you won't Die from them. Aside from psychological risks shrooms don't really do any damage to your body. When you're ranking them with other drugs they are the safest out of all of them.
Source:
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2019/06/25/what-is-the-most-dangerous-drug
That's not what a strawman argument is.
He said that shrooms are safer. You thought the argument he made was that shrooms use would lead to a decrease in cocaine and heroin use. They aren't the same argument.
A straw man fallacy (sometimes written as strawman) is the informal fallacy of refuting an argument different from the one actually under discussion, while not recognizing or acknowledging the distinction.
And I did not do that.
I asked him if that's what he was saying (and I honestly thought it might have been). I was asking for a clarification.
I didn't misframe what he was saying and then refute it.
Ehh that's fair. I guess I'm so used to the use of clarification questions(often ones that are asked in the most infuriating way possible) as a lead up to and reframing of a conversation into an area that it didn't originally start as, that I thought such actions that you took as equivalent to strawmanning.