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If he was funding cartel activity by purchasing meth from Mexico, you can be sure that harm resulted (even before you get to the destruction that meth addiction
by HoveringOrb 6y ago
If he was funding cartel activity by purchasing meth from Mexico, you can be sure that harm resulted (even before you get to the destruction that meth addiction causes).
- sneak 6y agoThe alternative of having a square job and funding the US military via compulsory tax payments kills and tortures an order of magnitude more people than the cartels, if you want to follow the money in this line of reasoning. Furthermore, the destruction caused by the individual use of meth cannot reasonably be attributed to anyone other than the person who willingly purchased, acquired, and ingested the substance with full consent.
- jokethrowaway 6y agoThe difference being that if you don't buy drugs online voluntarily you won't get jailed. If you don't pay your taxes you, eventually, will. It's not moral to ask citizens to pay taxes, but it's not immoral to pay taxes: you do it because it's the least harmful option available to you.
- ajkdhcb2 6y agoIf drugs were legal there wouldnt any cartel activity associated with it, maybe no powerful cartels at all, so this is stupid logic
- jasonhansel 6y agoPerhaps, but right now--as it stands--there is cartel activity associated with it. And funding violent cartels for any reason should be illegal, for the same reasons that funding any violent organization should be illegal.