” Listing three terrible things that happened to me as a result of other people’s drug abuse is a straw man argument?
It is when you start implying that those experiences will be come everyone’s experience, all the time. “
No, it isn’t.
Sure it is. It's no different than arguing that cutting welfare will put old people out on the street. You find a few cases of some elderly person being evicted because they couldn't afford their rent, and hold that up as an example of what's going to happen, with the tacit assertion that this is what's going to happen to all the old people, everywhere.