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by Scramblejams 3295 days ago
You admit LSD will never be legal. So some of that revenue unavoidably goes to the cartels. They kill people with your money. You know that. But you send them your cash anyway. The mental contortions you are forced to engage in to deny your responsibility for your contribution to cartels' violence do not interest me.

If you were determined to behave ethically, you would refuse to buy the stuff unless you could procure it legally. And if you couldn't obtain it legally, you would abstain.

And as for the tortured war and asthma comparisons, see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism