In $2012$ in an interview about her documentary, Cocaine Unwrapped director Rachel Seifert told journalist Nick Curtis of the London Evening Standard, th "I don't have a moral issue with people taking cocaine, per se$.$ I think we have to accept the fact that people will always take drugs. A lot of us have trlec people like it$.$ If rich people in London want to take cocaine, then let them. But they have to acknowledge they are part of a chain, and should be standi demanding that it shouldn't be attached to death, destruction and blood at the other end." $[$emphasis added by Timmons$]$

Given that statement, answer the following questions in a post of three paragraphs $($one paragraph to answer each of the enumerated questions$).$

Is Seifert's statement:

an assumption

a hypothesis

a form of analysis

or political rhetoric?