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Originally posted by Say_hello_for_me
Would you settle for a but-for test? But for drugs being illegal, they would be widely available and cheap and relatively unprofitable for criminals. (Your position) Check. But, but for criminals in this country providing a demand for illegal drugs at expensive prices, they would be completely unprofitable for criminals (My position: No demand = No Supply).
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in 2004, I often read in the papers about Seagrams and Budweiser executives engaging in drive by shootings to kill off their competitors. Don't you?
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Originally posted by Say_hello_for_me
You can hide your face in a crowd of criminals and say its the mob at fault, but it doesn't take away your incremental contribution to the harm by way of your incremental demand. And only the Lord knows what message you send to the children of this country when you deny culpability for the harms that result from your actions. A Friday night in Southwest or Lawndale would do your sense of wrong, right.
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If the drugs weren't illegal, there wouldn't be the violence associated with their trade. The real crime is sentencing our mentally ill drug addicts to jail instead of rehab.
