The newer salts of the tryptamines (fumarate usually) seem to be much, much gentler. In the old days they were mostly freebases (especially the base tryptamines) which are horrible to snort, they burn and they do absorb but it takes a while, tastes and smells horrible, and burns the whole time.
Well I hate needles personally, can't stand having a needle in my vein or muscle. I've always been that way. I'd prefer putting a small oral syringe in my ass to putting a needle in my leg any day of the week.
I can see why you'd feel that way given how you feel about the ROA. But the fact of the matter is, it is safer than IM and quite similar in effects and kinetics. So it IS harm reduction to suggest to people to do it instead of IM. I do realize that with wheel filters and proper hygeine, IMing is pretty safe, but drug users are known to ignore that kind of stuff, and the downside for doing it wrong can be serious and even deadly if you don't seek medical attention (and lets be honest, not everyone is willing to do that, we have had BLers die from abscesses who knew better due to not wanting to go to the hospital, let alone less experienced users or new users who post to ask one question and don't stick around, who truly do not know better). I've seen abscesses become extremely serious in real life, let alone what I've seen and heard about on here. Rectal admin is never going to give you an abscess. I wouldn't call suggesting someone to plug when they're asking whether they should IM or snort, or if they're asking the best way to ingest, say, 2C-B besides orally, is promoting it to an extreme degree. It's just a suggestion that is a pretty good one, IMO. It's just point blank less dangerous. I stand by it as a valid HR practice when it comes to ingesting psychedelics parenterally, and not just psychedelics but a variety of substances. Some people don't like it, and that's fine, there's just been a history of people trying to paint it as something it isn't, and of trying to paint the desire to inform people about a less harmful route of administration as somehow spreading something unsavory which is why I am still talking about it.