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1. javert+s1[view] [source] 2015-05-29 20:26:45
>>uptown+(OP)
Gross miscarriage of justice. People have a right to buy drugs.

Every single government actor involved in this case is far more guilty than Ross and, frankly, they are the ones that deserve prison.

Yes, Ross should have realized you can't massively break the law and get away with it. He made a big mistake.

But the mistake he made was assuming that other people were more benevolent than they really are.

This young man viewed the world with a child-like, rosy-eyed perspective, and for that, he gets crushed by the boot of government brutality.

Disclaimer: I have no involvement with any dark nets or online drug trade.

edit: I don't know if he hired hitmen and if he did, I suspect it was in his own defense.

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2. wvenab+g2[view] [source] 2015-05-29 20:31:13
>>javert+s1
> People have a right to buy drugs.

Actually they don't, which is kind of the point.

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3. javert+P2[view] [source] 2015-05-29 20:34:21
>>wvenab+g2
Yes, they do, you just don't understand rights.

Rights are the things that we would all agree should be legally protected if we were all rational about it.

So they're a human construct, but they're still objective.

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4. eroppl+F5[view] [source] 2015-05-29 20:52:57
>>javert+P2
Isn't it funny how the people who appeal to rationalism are the ones who happen to not manage it themselves? I mean, I'm not saying I'm rational, but I'm also not fronting about it.

What "rational", of course, usually means, is "agreeing with me", and so there are so very many false Scotsmen in attendance.

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