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totally agreeOriginally Posted by Rexanglorum
I agree with you Dirty, this guy's fortune is built on the deaths of others.
If we go one step further though, you are partially responsible for that carnage because you support drug prohibition. This situation exists because people take drugs, it exists because our government keeps recreational drugs illegal and it causes drugs to sell for far more than if they were legal and that is what makes these violent thugs into billionaires.
If marijuana, cocaine, heroin and other drugs were manufactured and sold cheaply by legal entities, it may offend the Puritan sensibilities of some Americans but it would also end the reign of drug lords and end the madness and mayhem associated with these drug wars. Either our laws have to change or the human brain has to change so as to not enjoy exogenous substances that change how it perceives reality. Seeing as how our drug laws are much newer than the human brain, and since the human brain is based on millions of years of evolution and and our drug laws are based on the racism and superstition of the early 20th Century, I think it would be wise to remove the laws instead of ask humans to change how their brains work.
That is just my opinion though. Perhaps if we conscript a few of today's most popular cartoon characters into cheesy after school specials and have Michelle Obama tell kids to "just say no," we can reverse eons of evolution, end the demand for drugs and stop the violence that way.