All those things are enjoyable and have no legal alternative. A chat application would have.
uber was just better
the legal alternative to pirating games was to buy them, geez
the legal alternative to gay sex was heterosexual sex, which many people actually preferred; possibly you haven't heard, but it's a more popular alternative even today
you're right about heroin and meth though, so, one out of four i guess
i mean if the objective is just 'euphoria' (as opposed to avoiding opiate withdrawal or having a 60-hour-long orgy) there are a lot of ways you can get it: hyperventilation, falling in love, roller coasters, exercise, praying, etc., and i thought about saying this, but i think that this really is a pretty weak counterargument to dtech's claim that heroin and meth have no legal alternatives; they're pretty much right about that
> the legal alternative to gay sex was heterosexual sex
Unless you're subscribing to a unscientific "people choose to be gay" philosophy, having sex with a gender you're not attracted to is not at all an alternative.
> the legal alternative to pirating games was to buy them
You mentioned surviving today, currently a lot of those games cannot be bought legally, which is what I meant with no alternative. Back then also a lot of people didn't pirate, and a lot of people who did did so because they had little money. I would count that situation as having no available alternative.
We were discussing a hypothetical chat application which currently are offered for free, so money is not an issue there.