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We don't have a black-market problem, we have a demand problem: if people didn't demand drugs, there wouldn't be a market at all.
by k0mplex 13y ago
We don't have a black-market problem, we have a demand problem: if people didn't demand drugs, there wouldn't be a market at all.
- stbarnes 13y agoYou seem to be implying that we should focus on reducing demand. That could be true, but "X implies Y" does not necessarily imply that the best way of eliminating Y is to eliminate X. For instance, "We don't have a murder problem, we have a "people exist" problem."
- spikels 13y agoWe don't have a black-market problem, we have a people problem: if people didn't misuse drugs, there wouldn't be a problem at all.