• Ignotum@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    If all narcotics disappeared today, a ton of people would get seriously ill or die from withdrawal

    Guess narcotics are good and we shouldn’t try to reduce their usage

    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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      15 hours ago

      Good analogy, bad specific example.

      As much misery and death as can result from substance abuse, most narcotics can actually be beneficial (or at least not severely harmful) when using appropriate amounts the right way.

      Burning fossil fuels, on the other hand, has only ever been a bad and EXTREMELY harmful (but lucrative) way of accomplishing things that could increasingly be achieved without it.