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Original Question

Person 1: heroin is highly addictive therefore its bad for people 


Person 2: heroin isn't addictive because addiction was around before heroin

Answers

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Ad hoc Rescue or an MSU ( making shit up) non-sequitur. The history of addiction has nothing to do with the physically addictive properties of Heroin. 

When a result can happen due to multiple causes but we miss some of them, our conclusion will be false and that would be a case of affirming the consequent .

The argument here is:
Something caused addiction to people before the invention of heroin, for example coca leaves.
coca => addiction
We have addiction therefore we have THAT which caused addiction before the invention of HEROIN (and  therefore the cause is not heroin).
addiction => coca


We know that
coca => addiction
and we miss that
heroin => addiction

"The existence of a kind of thing does not allow the existence of new things of the same kind."


That's a made-up rule. This would be wishful thinking 

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