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> if it couldn't have happened without your action People have been buying and OD'ing on opiates for centuries. They could easily have happened without SR.

• Tomte 8y ago
  Again, the law doesn't care about "could". As it shouldn't. How would you ever convict a thief if "someone else could have stolen it, had the defendant not been there first" was a valid defense? You need to look at the concrete situation and in that situation the drugs came via Silk Road.
  • joefourier 8y ago
    The thief analogy does not exactly hold. A better one would be having the thief steal an item by threatening the victim with a pocket knife bought an Amazon. Are the manufacturers of the pocket knife guilty? Is Amazon guilty as well? Although since dying of a drug overdose does not (directly) harm third parties, it's closer to trying to convict the manufacturers/sellers of rope for cases of suicide by hanging.
    • zaroth 8y ago
      There are some drugs which can kill you which only certain people can legally sell. There are some drugs which can kill you which no one can legally sell. There are millions of non-drug items someone can sell you which can kill you. So I think it has nothing to do with whether people died from items sold on the marketplace, but rather that the marketplace as a whole was de facto illegal. Contrast to OpenBazaar.
  • benchaney 8y ago
    > you’re legally a cause of something if it couldn't have happened without your action. > Again, the law doesn't care about "could". Which is it?