Re:How a Mexican Drug Cartel Makes Its Billions
by vlisivka on Friday June 15, 2012 @04:42PM
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Why you are worrying about revenues of cartels?
If you think that selling drugs is legal, then their business is equally legal to business of Apple or Microsoft.
Why you are not worrying about revenues of Microsoft or Apple?
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Re:How a Mexican Drug Cartel Makes Its Billions
by angli on Friday June 15, 2012 @10:22PM
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Because Apple and Microsoft aren't using their revenues to kill thousands of people. If cutting off their revenues diminishes their ability to do that, it'd be irresponsible of us not to worry about it, or at least consider it
Re:How a Mexican Drug Cartel Makes Its Billions
by laughinghan on Friday June 15, 2012 @10:42PM
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Because Microsoft and Apple's retail employees don't do drive-by shootings of each other's storefronts.
No one here is claiming that selling drugs is legal. Some of us think that selling drugs should become legal, in the hopes that businesses that are like Microsoft and Apple, i.e., don't assassinate judges, etc, will outcompete the cartels and decrease the cartel's revenues, hence decreasing their ability and participation in such undesirable activities.