talking points that piss you off

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That's a simple fact. You can die of an overdosis of alcohol, but not from smoking pot.
Why does that irritate you?

One that irritates me is:

"Guns don't kill, people do" and anything similar.
An apparant truism, that is both simplistic and stupid and miss the point.


 

[politicus]

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That's a simple fact. You can die of an overdosis of alcohol, but not from smoking pot.
Why does that irritate you?

It's not that it's factually inaccurate; it's just a very poor argument. In fact, to me, it's a perfectly good argument for banning alcohol.

OK. I see your point, but its a premise for that statement that alcohol is so ingrained in our culture, that it is impossible to forbid it. As a consequence it becomes pointless to ban a substance, that is less dangerous.
Its not totally logical, but it does make sense.