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Reviews and escrows are a thing in the drug world. Generally speaking everything with drugs is easier: -It's easier to manufacture your own drugs than commit m

Reviews and escrows are a thing in the drug world. Generally speaking everything with drugs is easier: -It's easier to manufacture your own drugs than commit murder -It's easier to go unnoticed by law enforcement manufacturing, selling or buying drugs than going unnoticed with murder -Enforcement authorities around the world are much more willing to cooperate with each other when it comes to solving murder rather than busting someone's MDMA lab -The market for drug consumption is much larger than the market for hitmen (fortunately!) and it's easier to reach out for the former audience rather than the latter -There are much more third parties willing to act as escrow for drug trade rather than hitmen services -There's a moral case to be had about leaving drug use alone (victimless crime and all that), as opposed to murderers or murder instigators which are universally reviled; there are much fewer people willing to engage in a hypothetical hitman market than there are with a drug market -A review system can actually work with drugs because of the large demand and relatively risk-free aspect for buyers; a good seller can quickly build a reputation, while a bad seller will get buried by bad reviews. Can you imagine a hitman customer writing an Amazon-style review over the person he had murdered? >And to be clear, I'm not saying murder for hire on the Internet is a thing; I'm just mildly surprised nobody seems to have done it yet, especially now that cryptocurrencies have pretty much solved the largest problem of how to get paid. There just isn't enough demand for it to be worth the risk and hassle. As I said, any hitman stupid enough to set up a front store is begging to be busted by undercover cops posing as "customers".

naasking 8y ago
> -It's easier to manufacture your own drugs than commit murder Well that seems false. You literally need no equipment to commit murder. If you have no connection with the victim, it's even easy to get away with it with a few precautions. Drug synthesis is much, much harder. The rest of your points seem mostly sound. The low demand for murder services is probably the most pertinent reason for the difference.
- yawaworhtttt 8y ago
  I was taking into account the human factor; most people are simply not willing to kill another human being in cold blood, whether it's sheer empathy or the risk of getting caught.
  - jstarfish 8y ago
    Empathy is not a consideration in the mind of a hungry man.
    - eitland 8y ago
      This has been proven wrong by many a hungry man.
  - jandrese 8y ago
    I think simple human empathy would be a problem for anybody considering a career in contract killing. A bigger problem might be that it's not as easy to for sure kill someone as most people think, especially if you want to avoid leaving any evidence at all. It only takes one error to kill your career. It also doesn't help that the public's image of assassins (super professional bald guys with enormous resources) is pretty much completely wrong. Actual assassins are much more likely to be drug addicted flat broke bums.
    - naasking 8y ago
      > It only takes one error to kill your career I think this overstates the case. Up to 40% of murders go unsolved in any given year. Most murders are committed by people the victims know, that's why they're "easy" to solve. If you don't know your victims, there's virtually no way for the police to link you to the crime unless you make a colossal mistake, like divulging our identity or your contact info to the person who hired you, as the police will be looking at them closely. DNA and fingerprints, unless you're already a criminal where those are registered, would only establish you as serial murderer whose identity is unknown.
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naasking 8y ago

> -It's easier to manufacture your own drugs than commit murder Well that seems false. You literally need no equipment to commit murder. If you have no connection with the victim, it's even easy to get away with it with a few precautions. Drug synthesis is much, much harder. The rest of your points seem mostly sound. The low demand for murder services is probably the most pertinent reason for the difference.

yawaworhtttt 8y ago
I was taking into account the human factor; most people are simply not willing to kill another human being in cold blood, whether it's sheer empathy or the risk of getting caught.
- jstarfish 8y ago
  Empathy is not a consideration in the mind of a hungry man.
  - eitland 8y ago
    This has been proven wrong by many a hungry man.
- jandrese 8y ago
  I think simple human empathy would be a problem for anybody considering a career in contract killing. A bigger problem might be that it's not as easy to for sure kill someone as most people think, especially if you want to avoid leaving any evidence at all. It only takes one error to kill your career. It also doesn't help that the public's image of assassins (super professional bald guys with enormous resources) is pretty much completely wrong. Actual assassins are much more likely to be drug addicted flat broke bums.
  - naasking 8y ago
    > It only takes one error to kill your career I think this overstates the case. Up to 40% of murders go unsolved in any given year. Most murders are committed by people the victims know, that's why they're "easy" to solve. If you don't know your victims, there's virtually no way for the police to link you to the crime unless you make a colossal mistake, like divulging our identity or your contact info to the person who hired you, as the police will be looking at them closely. DNA and fingerprints, unless you're already a criminal where those are registered, would only establish you as serial murderer whose identity is unknown.
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