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by ZoFreX 5064 days ago
How would you possibly know how many of your friends use heroin responsibly and in secret with no effect on their lives (a la NY business man in the article)?
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andrewfelix 5064 days ago
That argument is a logical absurdity. You cannot assert a proposition is true because it has not yet been proven false.
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ZoFreX 5064 days ago
I'm not asserting anything, other than that anecdotes are not data.
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