Voidmatrix said:
Hey Dragonrider, given how this topic has expanded from the original purview, I'd like to hear why you chose cocaine specifically.
There's a lot of diverse and beautiful perspectives here. Many have shown the interconnectedness between a variety of seemingly disparate goods and industries.
While I voted yes, my caveat would be that it's indirect bloodied hands. In this context, it seems that most people living in western developed countries may have indirect blood on their hands by, using cell phones, driving gas vehicles, using wood products, using some computer products and components, and even by wearing certain brands of clothing. It could even extend to the interaction with prostitutes, which creates a demand, and filling the demand necessitates violence in that industry.
The world is rough, and life is tough, for by simply living, we inadvertently contribute to a variety of damage the world over. It's hard to escape considering we are powerless to what state and cultural paradigms we are born into, that in one way or another, molds and develops us.
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I don't realy know why i choose cocaine. Well i do know, and i'll come back to it in a minute.
But the thing is that i am not realy sure myself where i stand on this issue.
And not about whether buying cocaine is ethically justifiable or not, because i think it isn't, but about whether or not i as a person have the right to judge other people over these kind of choices.
The reason why i started this poll, and why i choose cocaine, is that a few weeks ago, a dutch crime-reporter was brutally murdered in amsterdam because of his involvement in a very complex courtcase against a major druglord over a series of brutal murders.
This crime reporter realy was a very special man. Often, people either seemed to love or hate him, but even most of the people who hated him had a great respect for his work as a crime reporter.
I must say that i looked up to him as well, even though he could be a little annoying sometimes.
It was solely because of his efforts for instance, that two innocent men where eventually acquitted in a re-trial of a rape and murdercase that they had previously been convicted for.
People in the US may know him from solving the natalee holloway case.
Everybody knew he was on a deathlist, and two other people involved in this case, a lawyer and the brother of a witness, had already been murdered. But this very brave man choose not to give in to these threats. He choose to risk his life, like he had done many times before, for what he thought was the right thing to do.
They hired a 21 year old wannabe gangster/rapper to do the job. A total nobody and poor excuse of a human being. The only song he ever made was about how school and work just didn't do it for him, so that he had no choice realy, but to pursue a career in crime.
He was caught, about one hour after the fatal shooting, by excellent policework. Not a shot was fired.
So here we are: a very great man was shot dead by a total nobody, like too many innocent people before him, only because he choose to help a crucial witness in a very complicated courtcase. They couldn't kill the witness himself, so they killed his brother instead, and then his lawyer, and now this crime reporter.
And then i just wondered...where do i stand on this? I have always been a strong proponent of legalization of all drugs. And still am.
But this is bigger than my freedom to do with my brain and body whatever i want. This is about innocent people, from where i live, all the way back to south america.
And i wondered where other people stand as well.
I still believe in legalization myself. But legalization is not going to fix this. This is a war over money and power, cartels, monopolies. Billions of euros and dollars.
The only thing prohibition did, is raising the stakes.
