An analogy is not a comparison of similarity, two different words, two different meanings.
Only one similarity is required for analogy.
Similarity between food and opiates for an opiate addict is this:
Bad consequences from NOT having them.
The fact that food causes death as a consequence whereas drugs only cause discomfort, only makes my case, that your arguments that bad consequences from not having something makes that thing bad, totally false.
For if bad consequences from not having something makes something bad, then the worse the consequences, the worse the substance.
This would mean that food is a far worse thing than opiates, which is clearly absurd.
Therefore the claim made about drugs being bad because if the consequences of not having them is also absurd and false.
My analogy was chosen to best highlight this absurdity, not because I feel that food is in anyway alike to drugs, but because they are UNALIKE, except in that one particular way.
This does not prove that drugs are not bad, it disproves your argument that drugs are bad because of the consequences of not taking them, which is why I pointed out something which has even worse consequences, and leads to even greater immorality than opiates, and yet is not bad because of it.
The fact that you need food to live only makes my case stronger, everytime you point out that food is not the same as drugs because you will die without food whereas just feel bad without drugs, I don't understand how you don't get that this IS THE ENTIRE POINT of my analogy.
Anything can have negative consequences in life, it's how you handle it that matters, and how you handle it is determined by your character.
Opiates make me desire them, but not to the point of causing any negative consequences to others. I take drugs responsably, be addicted responsably, by remaining true to my main moral principle of; do no harm.
My family are and will continue to be fine, but thanks for the insinuations against my character Lysis. I get enough of that garbage from mainstream society, stop being so judgmental.
I know your probably basing your assumptions off of things you did to others in your life while using, or drug addicts have done to you, but you don't know me and the things that are true about your character are not true about mine.
People who say drugs are bad because they make you do bad things are just refusing to take responsability for the terrible things they do while on or in pursuit of drugs, instead of admitting that they did bad things because of their own moral failings, they blame drugs, and that's how drugs get a bad name.
Drugs harm only one person, the user, and sometimes the harm they do is outweighed by the benefits.
However any harm that drugs are commonly said to do to others around the user, no its not the drugs doing that, it's the immorality and bad character of the user.
There is a paradox regarding an addict stopping drug use, barring circumstance preventing access to opiates an addict will only give up drugs if they want to stop using. If they don't want to stop using and drugs are available then they will continue using. But, if someone is using, barring certain circumstances, the drugs main effect is to make the addict want to continue using.
Therefore not being a fiend, going without or stopping when needed, are never chosen by anyone, but entirely determined by the persons character interactions. It's too complex to predict, but there is no free will in drugs, nor anywhere else in life by extension, the results are deterministic, based on all the variables, morality and strength of character being one such variable.
This means we are both responsible for our actions, while at the same time not actually choosing our actions, but calculating them, determinism, machina.
As for me I'll remain happily addicted to opiates (suboxone) for the rest of my life or until I don't want them anymore.
But there is no moral failing in me continuing to take them, nor harm to people around me, despite lysis adamant that bad things will happen to my family.
I have much worse problems that my opiate use, like pre existing mental conditions, like my surgical fixation and depression, I manage to avoid letting these harm my family, so too with everything else.
Ps if your going to quote me, please do so with full context to my argument, else it's misleading, and pointless.
