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Old 01-22-2010, 09:20 PM
 
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by fellow dealers? You're in some sort of situation wherein you are protected by a shady government and underworld ties. It's utterly safe from the perspective of personal physical risk; your involvement will give thousands of people more access to heroin.


Would you do it? Please only respond if you feel like explaining and defending your choice. It's the debate section, after all.
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Old 01-22-2010, 09:22 PM
 
Location: Tricity, PL
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Is that a question or offer ?
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Old 01-22-2010, 09:23 PM
 
Location: Sango, TN
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No, I would not.

Heroin is a man made drug, and I'm totally against those.
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Old 01-22-2010, 09:39 PM
 
Location: A Nation Possessed
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No. Nothing good comes from aiding and abetting the potential enslavement of others.

Besides, I don't view the body as a chemistry experiment--it has its own extremely complex chemical processes. Throwing garbage into the system will only result in getting garbage in return. I certainly don't want to be responsible for throwing garbage into someone else's system. If they want to do that to themselves, so be it. But it won't be coming from me.
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Old 01-22-2010, 09:51 PM
 
Location: Montgomery Village, MD
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Absolutely not. It would hurt others and I'm not down with that.
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Old 01-22-2010, 10:48 PM
 
Location: Victoria TX
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But, let's say you see a drug dealer, afraid he will be caught, throw an attache case in a dumpster. You look inside and find a million dollars in cash, all drug money. Do you help yourself to some or all of that money? What's the difference?

Let's say you offer a luxury car in a want ad, and a guy comes around and buys the car, and pays you with cash that you are sure is drug money. Do you refuse the sale? What's the difference?
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Old 01-22-2010, 11:38 PM
 
Location: Sango, TN
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But, let's say you see a drug dealer, afraid he will be caught, throw an attache case in a dumpster. You look inside and find a million dollars in cash, all drug money. Do you help yourself to some or all of that money? What's the difference?

Let's say you offer a luxury car in a want ad, and a guy comes around and buys the car, and pays you with cash that you are sure is drug money. Do you refuse the sale? What's the difference?
I would assume that the drug dealer would go back to the dumpster at a later time to get his million dollar case.

If its still there, he'll take that money, and buy more drugs, and addict more people.

If I take it, I buy a house, pay contractors to build it, lumber yards for the lumber, land from the original owner, and so forth and so on.

I think my usage is better.
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Old 01-22-2010, 11:42 PM
 
Location: Victoria TX
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I would assume that the drug dealer would go back to the dumpster at a later time to get his million dollar case.

If its still there, he'll take that money, and buy more drugs, and addict more people.

If I take it, I buy a house, pay contractors to build it, lumber yards for the lumber, land from the original owner, and so forth and so on.

I think my usage is better.
But the drugs bought with that money have already been distributed, and the users addicted. Youve got the money, instead of somebody else, same as if you had sold the drugs yourself. So you might as well sell the drugs yourself, and then build your house. Same result everywhere.
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Old 01-22-2010, 11:43 PM
 
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Consider this: those junkies were probably going to hurt themselves anyway. And let's be real: beyond the cliche's of Protestant hard work, a more learned person knows what America, and all Empires, were built on: the strong taking advantage of the weak. Corporations make decisions like this every day and choose evil; making products they know will be faulty, perpetuation of oil-rich psuedo-terrorists, etc.

Why should you stop the continuum and fall into financial mediocrity in the pursuit of minor-level change?

If you really want to be oh-so-caring about it, give half to charity. There- you helped ruin the lives of those who were going to be ruined anyway, while helping starving Africans who just might have a shot.

Throwing it out there.
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Old 01-23-2010, 05:06 AM
 
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by fellow dealers? You're in some sort of situation wherein you are protected by a shady government and underworld ties. It's utterly safe from the perspective of personal physical risk; your involvement will give thousands of people more access to heroin.


Would you do it? Please only respond if you feel like explaining and defending your choice. It's the debate section, after all.
I wouldn't worry about fellow dealers. I would worry about users. That would be my biggest risk. Considering that the money that I make would come from a specific population and in a specific location-I would have to worry about someone who is up and coming and wants a piece of the pie. Territorial.

No, I wouldn't do it. There is no guarantee that had someone had access they would use it, but there is a guarantee that it doesn't take too much access to become addicted. But, for the sake of the argument lets say that they all had a death wish. It is those that are harmed: the children due to neglect and abuse from the addicted, the legit business' that are robbed, the parents or neighbors that are murdered-that I wouldn't want a hand in.
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