RE: Drugs: A moral decision, a matter of choice, or a national health risk?
September 20, 2014 at 5:46 pm
(This post was last modified: September 20, 2014 at 5:57 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
I think that Eminem had a much more realistic (and I'm being loose with the word here.....incredibly) portrayal of drug use and slinging dope than the "I'm on a yacht with a limo and 8 supermodels" crowd. It doesn't matter though, it's all fantasy (and it's produced not for the dope slinging crowd...or even the ghetto crowd - but young white suburbanites...they're the ones with the cash that buys the cds and merch).
Without buyers there would be no sellers. What I'm suggesting, is that it is neither the buying -nor- the selling that are to blame for these problems you see. Lets say that you and I sell coke to roughly the same clientele - and we have a "business dispute". Can I litigate you? Can I hire a lawyer and take you to a civil court in order to negotiate an agreement between us? No, I cannot. I can, however, shoot you - all of your employees...and perhaps a few of your customers. If I don't - given the slims margins involved, I may be out of a living shortly. Does this sort of business model attract "morally flexible" people? Yes. If I -could- litigate you, how much room would there be for those gangbangers in the coke market? Sure, those people who would get into shootouts would still do so - but not for this. You don't see the manager of the 7-11 on top of his store firing an ak at the manager of the Circle K across the street on his roof, with his norinco, -over accusations of slurpee price fixing or market infringement, eh?
(I want to add, that the vast majority of drug dealers are just as non violent as the vast majority of drug users. I don't know what the kids call it nowadays - but we used to call it squashing beef, and that was always the way to go - it's better for business)
Without buyers there would be no sellers. What I'm suggesting, is that it is neither the buying -nor- the selling that are to blame for these problems you see. Lets say that you and I sell coke to roughly the same clientele - and we have a "business dispute". Can I litigate you? Can I hire a lawyer and take you to a civil court in order to negotiate an agreement between us? No, I cannot. I can, however, shoot you - all of your employees...and perhaps a few of your customers. If I don't - given the slims margins involved, I may be out of a living shortly. Does this sort of business model attract "morally flexible" people? Yes. If I -could- litigate you, how much room would there be for those gangbangers in the coke market? Sure, those people who would get into shootouts would still do so - but not for this. You don't see the manager of the 7-11 on top of his store firing an ak at the manager of the Circle K across the street on his roof, with his norinco, -over accusations of slurpee price fixing or market infringement, eh?
(I want to add, that the vast majority of drug dealers are just as non violent as the vast majority of drug users. I don't know what the kids call it nowadays - but we used to call it squashing beef, and that was always the way to go - it's better for business)
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