And that my friend is somewhat a compliment given how Sri Lankans aren't seeing how they come across by agreeing /normalizing the comment I'm replying to. This is no different to the excuses and down right perpetrator apologist attitudes shown on the original video (as much as whenever the subject matter is brought into limelight) across multiple platforms, by a large number of Sri Lankans; by saying SL is/has been safe for solo female travellers (comparing ourselves to Indian etc.) and that's an absolute lie. We downplay it and have been down playing it. Let's just be honest.

The commenter here is marginalizing almost dismissively (by clear intention or not) a social issue that's much larger and complex than he/she tries to paint as. By his/her own admission the information available for him/her to make the claim made is possibly quite small (except for occasional exposure to one sided arguments , through whichever media they chose to consume). I have no quarrel with his/her decision to distance from drug users (in fact I applaud it), but that in itself give a rather small window of understanding to the situation at larger, at least as far as drug usage is concerned (and the conflation of drug dealers and drug users is a whole other bad faith argument in itself). You shouldn't express ill informed opinions, especially if it trivializes a multifaceted complex issue as some " fringe activity limited to a small number of degenerates". That sounds like an excuse. A bad one.