Originally Posted by Alan Mendelson View Post
Frank, I had to think about this for a bit before posting. In your conclusion above you wrote:

"So here's my final point: Morphine is addictive, and potentially lethal, but has perfectly valid uses in medicine--therefore, I think anyone that absolutely has to gamble as a matter of life and death survival is completely justified and has my complete support."

I understand and agree with your comment about morphine-- no disputing that even though modern medicine can use non addictive forms of such drugs today.

But I can't understand how you can say this:

"I think anyone that absolutely has to gamble as a matter of life and death survival is completely justified and has my complete support."

Forgive me for being naive about this but is there anyone that absolutely has to gamble as a matter of life and death survival?

Or, am I just missing your entire point again?
Nope, you didn't miss my point. You got it perfectly.

~FK