Re: Off Topic: The Insane War on Drugs

[Margaret Tarbet <tarbet@swaa.com>]

Nick wrote, responding to Laura:
>
>>Drug suppliers and dealers are nothing more than capitalists creating 
>>a need
>>and filling it, period.
>
>Right.  Absolutely.  And murderers are nothing more than hunters,
>thinning the herds of humanity - sometimes out the goodness of their
>hearts, and other times for hire.  this, of course, is capitalism at its
>zenith!

What would you say drug dealers are, then, Nick?   I can't see that
they're in it for any reason except money, can you?  Sounds like
Capitalism to me.

Murderers-for-hire are Capitalists too, i think.  That their
'product' is something they have no right to sell is immaterial to
their motive.   'Ordinary' murderers are typically not in it for the
money, at least not in a business sense, so they wouldn't qualify.