They never made a straw man argument because they qualify it with the second part that you cut off. Why did you do that?

It seems you might not understand what downvotes are for then. Downvotes are for things that do not contribute to discussion so things like insults or actively dangerous suggestions should be downvoted.

Suggesting what is a very typical path to addiction for addicts is very bad advice and should not be shared. When someone is foolish enough to do so it should be downvoted because the whole discussion is toxic

Then you do understand why people are downvoting because this is bad advice and others dont want people to see it.

Lower karma posts are less likely to be seen?

But .ml communities promise meChina has mote free speech than the West! How is this possible?

/s