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Originally Posted by fingers  firstly, i imply nothing. you're agreeing that purity and cleanlyness varies drastically, so surely you see a term like 'street heroin' is a sweeping generalisation. |
I specifically and intentionally used the word "street" heroin to differentiate between pharmaceutical grade heroin, which comes in carefully measured doses. As you've agreed, and as you've agreed that I agree, street heroin purity and cleanliness varies. That IS the point I was making. There is no sweeping generalization here. The sweeping generalization would have been "ALL heroin varies in purity and cleanliness".
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Originally Posted by fingers Secondly, i think u r under the impression i'm arguing for recreational use of opiates. Which i do not. |
So what
are you arguing for? I don't even think our positions are so different, yet you accuse me of being emotional and full of preconceived notions. You want some examples of emotional arguments? "Heroin is BAD because junkies are filthy, dirty, disgusting creatures!" Here's another: "Heroin is BAD because heroin killed my best friend!" My arguments were not like this.
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Originally Posted by fingers Secondly, i struggled with opiate addiction for ten years, so you dont have to tell me what it does to you. i know. |
I'm very glad to hear it! Tell me please, why don't you struggle with it anymore? If you have stopped using opiates recreationally, do you have any "objective" reasons for doing so?
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Originally Posted by fingers Once again i'll say it, you have to detech yourself from emotion or pre-concieved notions IMHO.
Then again, we could simply agree to disgaree. That always works for me. |
I guess we're going to have to agree to disagree, because I honestly don't know what emotions you think I need to detach from. The only thing I can gather is that by emotion, you mean "any conclusion that differs from your own" and by objectivity, you mean "any conclusion that agrees with your own". It's very hard to beat logic like that.