3 ms·

At what point does this cross the line from "selling a legal product" to "mass murder"?

• dillondoyle 5y ago
  I'd say when you know of the damage you are causing but still double down to increase sales with lies & bribes. you pay a criminal fine, but the fine is far less than your profits so why not ;( You might know you've gone too far when you have to sneak in a law change to get rid of the only enforcement mechanism DEA had to stop (pause) such an insanely huge volume of pills through distributors. Thousands upon thousands at once to tiny towns. One feature of our for-profit marketable drug industry is they know exactly who is prescribing and where. They then go after those doctors to push more. They also knew it was all a lie from the start. They put the FDA employee in charge of approving the label in a hotel to write it together with their corporate staff. Relying on the most flimsy, misrepresented single scientific piece of paper to pretend their pills might be less addictive. Then using those few words to launch a marketing assault of death and pain. It's just like this settlement! Get your own lawyers to write it up and the government will rubber stamp it. https://archive.is/VYOeM https://archive.is/VYOeM
• bmn__ 5y ago
  The crime classification manual puts the threshold at three victims. Mass murder is concentrated in time, so this qualification does not apply, instead this is serial. Murder requires intent to kill, but the Sacklers only let the deaths recklessly happen, so this is manslaughter.
  • kieselguhr_kid 5y ago
    I think there's a case that this is depraved-heart murder, at least in some states. And since this occurred in all 50 states, I'd contend there's a good case for serial murder in at least a few of them.