Dark Web Drug Vendor Pleads Guilty After Feds Traced His Bitcoin Transactions

Re:Dark Web Drug Vendor Pleads Guilty After Feds Traced His ... by jMyles on Sunday June 17, 2018 @12:47AM (#17330919)

That's just not the point. Not the point at all.

Forget this guy for a second.

The real question here is: will this act (or generally, all of the actions taken by the state pursuant to enforcing prohibition) help anyone? Will it reduce death, disease, crime, misery, addiction?

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Re:Dark Web Drug Vendor Pleads Guilty After Feds Traced His ... by s73v3r_ on Sunday June 17, 2018 @02:56PM (#17333703)

That is entirely the point. This guy made a conscious decision to feel in drugs he knew we illegal and harmful. I have zero sympathy for him. He knew exactly what he was doing, and what the consequences were. He did this to himself

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Re:Dark Web Drug Vendor Pleads Guilty After Feds Traced His ... by jMyles on Sunday June 17, 2018 @08:44PM (#17335195)

As often is the case when debating with you, it's hard to understand the actual difference of viewpoint.

It seems like you just value revenge and compliance over a functioning civil society.

If you can't point to a tangible reduction in death, disease, misery, or addiction from these sorts of state actions, then I just don't see that you have a point to make at all.

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Re:Dark Web Drug Vendor Pleads Guilty After Feds Traced His ... by TomMarius on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @12:39PM (#17348173)

So, if we go a bit to the extreme, the survivors of Nazi camps also did it to themselves, since everything was done according to German laws?

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