It's ridiculous. I think a lot of the people here have a chip on their shoulder because they suspect they bought their ketamine from the same guy Elon did.

What Ross did was not a demonstration of showing restraint. You cannot defend a mafia boss for killing people by saying "at least he didn't rape the dozen bystanders that were watching" and you can't defend Ulbricht's actions, or the consequences of them, simply by saying he reduced harm. He spread harm - he ran a craigslist for drugs that ran off ad-hoc rules that could not promise safety for it's customers. It was illegal and rightfully so.

The precedent this sets is that you can live as a respected American drug lord if your skin is white. If it is not, the United States will use it's military power to prosecute you with absolute impunity.