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Notice that morality doesn't have to have anything to do with this argument. As a matter of pragmatism, the operator of a Silk Road-type site is almost certain
by jfasi 13y ago
Notice that morality doesn't have to have anything to do with this argument. As a matter of pragmatism, the operator of a Silk Road-type site is almost certain to harbor a conviction that he can do so without getting caught (regardless of whether the authorities have morality on their side).
The same same goes for stealing from your customers: of course you won't get caught, what are your victims going to do? File a police report that the money they gave to a contraband site to presumably purchase contraband was stolen? The same conviction that makes it possible for them to operate Silk Road 2 makes it possible for them to steal from their customers.
- pikachu_is_cool 13y agoI think what he's trying to say that it's far less likely for a libertarian "legalize drugs" type of person to screw a bunch of people over. Like, when you facilitate selling drugs, there is no victim. Hell, you probably prevented having a victim. When you facilitate selling weapons/assassinations/child porn, there is a victim. The latter type of person would be more likely to victimize his/her customers than the former.
- mbillie1 13y ago> Like, when you facilitate selling drugs, there is no victim. Ah, I'm pretty sure only libertarians feel this way...
- pikachu_is_cool 13y agoThis does not invalidate my point. Even though it may not be true, many people think that running a drug dealing website is for the betterment of society. It's less likely for the owners to rip its customers off and be the "bad guy".
- waterlesscloud 13y agoYou'd be wrong. Plenty of people on the left say the same thing.
- Nursie 13y agoHell no! I'm far from libertarian but the drug laws are a travesty and selling restricted substances is pretty much the definition of a victimless 'crime'. The myth of the first-hit-is-free, sell-at-the-school-gates 'pusher' is mostly just that, a myth. If you buy drugs you are not a victim. You may have problems and I believe that we should make government assistance available for those that do. However right now the state and its laws criminalise whole swathes of society for no good reason - there is no victim.
- munificent 13y ago> it's far less likely for a libertarian "legalize drugs" type of person to screw a bunch of people over. Why? Does being libertarian somehow grant a +3 to morality?
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- twelvechairs 13y agoplease stop with this idle speculation. 'the operator... is almost certain to..."? give me a break. you don't know them and ametur hour psychology isn't going to contribute anything to the discussion.