This bit of fear, uncertainty, and doubt was brought to you by the Institute For Armchair Psychonauts Who Never Use Drugs.
> 4. Be skeptical, read the literature; understand the risks you are taking.
is bad? Is the idea that we should turn off critical thought and blindly accept pro-LSD arguments, while blindly rejecting the anti-LSD arguments? That seems backwards.
But I'll be down voted to oblivion for calling you a propagandist for doing things that propagandists do. So this is me not calling you one.
Either way, thank you for the commentary. There have been times I actually didn't understand the downvotes, and your posts were rather enlightening.
If so: That's total nonsense and an unbelievably unscientific attitude.
This doesn't have anything to do with drug purity and has everything to do with the effects of the drug itself.
"A straw man is a common type of argument and is an informal fallacy based on the misrepresentation of an opponent's argument."
I haven't misrepresented your argument in any way since I haven't represented your argument in any way. I never claimed you claimed anything. It isn't fallacious to ask someone to clarify an argument.
You didn't explicitly state your argument (or anything of substance), so I asked what you were actually trying to claim.
But you can't, so you won't.
Please, if your position isn't what I asked, state what it is.
definitely adding you to the list of astroturfers on HN with that reply.
I'm done with this discussion at this point. I don't think you really have a concrete claim regarding the topic and you are avoiding creating one by derailing the conversation by arguing my question is fallacious.