> they are morally degenerate for exploiting human weakness for profit. Are you proposing that selling alcohol should be punishable by imprisonment? > this is

> they are morally degenerate for exploiting human weakness for profit. Are you proposing that selling alcohol should be punishable by imprisonment? > this is the natural result - businesses that exist solely to profit off of human pain and despair and create it on an industrial scale. I think that you're engaging in hyperbole. A liquor store or bar is not unambiguously evil. Most _users_ of the drug alcohol are not _abusers_ -- they consume at least somewhat responsibly, are not addicted, do not impose a burden on society, and get a net positive amount of utility from their use of the drug. You can s/alcohol/pretty much any other drug/ in the previous paragraph, though it's certainly the case that some drugs have lower total utility across society than others.