NetNews Usenet Archive 1993 #3/NN_1993_3.iso/spool/rec/nude/6292

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From: [e-mail] (Jim Palmeri)
Newsgroups: rec.nude
Subject: Re: Wreck Beach
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Date: 21 Jan 93 23:54:41 GMT
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>I hardly think it is appropriate to call drug sellers "lower forms of life."
>They are simply people who are business men on a black market.
>The correlation with violence is largely false, and partly what is to be
>expected of a black market. They cannot pay taxes, and they certainly do not
>get police protection for their business transactions as other business
>people do.
> I understand the fear, I understand the reasons, but lets not believe to
>much of the propoganda ok?  They are no more lower forms of life than
>alchohol drinkers, who use a drug that once was illegal and caused a violent
>black market.

Some drug dealers are business men on a black market.  They may have
a sense of propriety and ethics.

Some drug dealers will suspend all ethics as they get young school
children started on hard drugs so as to broaden their marketing base.
Never mind the health and well being of these children.  It may be
fair to say that these type of people are low life.

Just what proportion of all drug dealers are in each of the above
categories, I don't know.  It goes to show you that generalizations
never really work well.  But the fact is, some drug dealers are
indeed low life.  Perhaps many of them.

--
Jim P.   ([e-mail])