[tacticalogic]

Your isotope analogy also suffers from failure to take into consideration that the atoms don’t die, so the prediction that eventually it’s bound to happen fails in every case where someone died before it did.

[DiogenesLamp]

Your isotope analogy also suffers from failure to take into consideration that the atoms don’t die, so the prediction that eventually it’s bound to happen fails in every case where someone died before it did.

The population demographic represented by those susceptible to drug addiction doesn't die either. Individual members may do so, but they are replaced by others who share this same susceptibility.