This is actually a case where the logic is sound. The appetite for drugs is such that even if there were no narcotics trafficking- people will grow or make their own. Sailors used to drink torpedo fuel to get buzzed even after toxic chemicals were added to make you sick. They developed a purification process. Guys deployed in Muslim countries used to drink wood alcohol even though it can blind you and kill you. People who can’t figure out a lap top make meth- and somewhere someone is huffing paint or aeresol, or trying to make “jenkum.” The domestic use versus exportation of drugs like Cocaine or Heroine tend to be much lower in the countries that produce and traffic them than the ones importing them. Drug lords live like presidents in palaces bough off American drug use. It’s like blaming McDonald’s for obesity. They sell the stuff, but if people didn’t buy so much they wouldn’t exist- and as long as people keep buying if it isn’t them- someone else will supply it.
i mean mcdonalds is partially to blame for obesity but more from scummy practices as a company than supplying the demand. It's just like the companies that spent years lying about pharmaceutical opiates being perfectly totally safe. Their fault comes in lying and cheating to get to be where they are just as the cartel's fault comes in the deaths, lies and cheating they used to get where they were.
There’s truth to what you say. But it’s important to separate the two things. What is the SINGLE cause of basically every type of vehicle crash? Excessive speed. Period. Take two planes, two cars, two motorcycles, boats- whatever. Now- sit them still a mile apart on the moon. Will either crash? Likely not. So see? Speed is the cause! But.... that’s true yet not true isn’t it? If that drunk driver were going 0mph- they’d be perfectly safe to drive wouldn’t they, so the cause isn’t being drunk- it is moving. McDonald’s is culpable in obesity. Their business practices and profit model not only fly far outside the bounds of healthy nutrition, but are designed to psychologically influence unhealthy eating. But- as an entity- McDonald’s is no more responsible than truck companies are for delivering the stuff, or cooks for making it, cities for paving roads or granting business licenses...
to sum up- McDonald’s corporation steers people to obesity, and you wouldn’t have as many alcoholics without alchohol companies, or as much pollution without car companies. The idea and the entity itself isn’t inherently bad. Peoples use of the thing causes a problem, and the companies themselves are profit motivated to encourage and supply unhealthy or harmful use of their product. So we can’t blame McDonald’s even if we can look at them as a large contributor. The question to ask ourselves is how we structured a society so that our core functioning is one where harmful behaviors are the most profitable, where profit is the greatest arbitrator of how we are expected to behave, and if that’s the way we want things to be. Focusing on McDonald’s as an entity is a narrow focus that solves one specific instance of a larger general problem and just lets someone else take their place or figure out another way to “game” the system.
Some serious Noriega shit right there.
Let me show you a few of the other characters evolved in this tragic comedy.
Anyway, about the problem of drug trafficking itself? He's 100% right. The part about murdering and raping a bunch of people over it? Wrong.
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His logic astounds me.
-Drug Dealer Guy, Brooklyn 99
Let me show you a few of the other characters evolved in this tragic comedy.
Anyway, about the problem of drug trafficking itself? He's 100% right. The part about murdering and raping a bunch of people over it? Wrong.