On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 3:39 AM, Chris de Morsella <[email protected]>wrote:
>> I not only know they're very violent I know why they're violent. If >> government made chocolate bars illegal the demand for chocolate bars would >> not end and organizations would come into existence to fill that demand. >> And the underground Hershey candy company and the underground Nestles >> candy company couldn't sue each other in the courts and so would have no >> way to settle disputes except through baseball bats and machine guns. >> > > > Come on man nobody is going to kill someone else over a bar of chocolate > Of course they will! Chocolate is a multibillion dollar industry and there is a very strong demand for it that will not disappear just because some pinhead in government passes a law against it. Legal or illegal whenever there is a demand for product X, prostitution, drugs, pirate DVDs, pornography, chocolate bars or whatever, there will always be people willing to cater to that demand if the price is right. > There are no chocolate deals gone bad. > Absolutely untrue, there are plenty of chocolate deals that go bad and when they do the parties involved sue each other, that's why the big candy companies have hundreds of lawyers on their payrole. But because Meth dealers are selling a product that somebody in government has deemed illegal they do not have that option and must resort to what Clausewitzeuphemistically called "diplomacy by other means", that is to say they make the other party an offer they can't refuse. > I think government has a role to play in enforcing correct labeling and > ingredients > I pretty much agree with perhaps a few caveats. > But not enforce monopolies - as it does with medical & dental practice, > and the drug sector for example. > Agreed. > A black market degenerates into a cutthroat cartel > True, but the blackness of the market has nothing to do with the nature of the commodity being transacted, it's black because somebody in government decided to make it black. Tobacco has killed many orders of magnitude more people than Meth and all other illegal drugs put together, but the market for tobacco is not black because somebody in government decided that particular drug is not illegal; so when tobacco deals go bad they don't machine gun each other, they sue each other. John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
