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by loeg 512 days ago
Teenagers routinely drink alcohol and sometimes die.
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xmprt 511 days ago
And businesses that knowingly sell alcohol to minors are charged with a crime.
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echoangle 511 days ago
Sure, but the crime isn’t murder. And they aren’t getting life for it.
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Pesthuf 511 days ago
If their business sold alcohol to as many teenagers as the Silk Road has sold drugs, then yes, they would get life.
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butlike 511 days ago
Then why isn't the CEO of anheiser-busch given two consecutive life sentences plus 40 years?
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mc32 511 days ago
AB-InBev does not sell directly to consumers. They have a distributor model of operation.
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echoangle 510 days ago
You mean how Silk Road didn’t actually sell anything but was only a marketplace?
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paulddraper 511 days ago
Do they get multiple life sentences?
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