Right? The Chinese have NO REASON to hold a grudge against the English for the Opium Wars. All they had to do was say NO!
False argument - not at all equivalent. For one thing recreational use of opioids is ILLEGAL. My understanding of the time that opium parlors were perfectly legal, thus implying it was OK to indulge. But in reality all you have to do IS say no. You don't get an addiction from someone coughing in your face, You don't get it from handling contaminated items. You don't get it from a mosquito bite, and unlike something like cancer you don't go to the doctor feeling pain to discover that you have an addiction. YOU GET ADDICTIONS BY CONSCIOUSLY CHOOSING TO COMMIT AN ILLEGAL ACT.
Your choice, YOU take the consequences. The rest of us are NOT responsible for addicts' bad life choices.