A telling phenomenon: the absent outrage over Phillip Seymour Hoffman's criminality

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11. No, you're making a lot of unrelated assumptions

You say the laws we have regarding heroin presume that the heroin user is evil. Not in the least. The laws prohibit the sale or use of heroin because it is a very dangerous drug. I think Philip Seymour Hoffman's death proves that to be the case. If an incredible career doing what you love to do, and all the money and awards gained, and a loving family, and tons of talent can't overcome the allure of a drug that can kill you (and end everything you love), that drug is too powerful. And it needs to be regulated in our society: because we regulate things that kill people: from environmental hazards to dangerous automobile speeds to drugs.

I think everyone agrees that heroin is bad. Not the people.

Are the laws applied unequally? Sure. That's true of almost all our laws. That says less about the laws than about the way we enforce them. It doesn't mean we shouldn't have laws. Maybe these aren't the exact right laws, but that's an entirely different discussion.

Your argument is very very addled. I won't speculate as to why it is so addled.