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Wow. That message is stunning propaganda.

Sure, I could give someone a dollar and that person could use it to buy a small portion of their last hit of heroin which finally ends up killing that person.

This message is saying that I am responsible (at least partially) for that person's death.

The bigger causes of that person's death is that this person is a heroin addict, and something caused this person to be a heroin addict, and that someone is selling heroin, and that someone is making heroin, and so on and so on....

When you account for all the causal factors that led to that person's death, this one dollar is just the straw that broke the camel's back. The real cause of the death is all the other factors that brought that person to become addicted to heroin to the point of overdose.



I think that that wow you mentioned is the point. They are trying to make you remember/shock you instead of engaging in a rational debate.




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