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by moe 4176 days ago
not everyone considers that [buying drugs] to be a positive or even entirely neutral act

Most european governments do. Germany, UK, Spain, Italy etc. include revenue from drug trade (and prostitution) in their GDP.

Most people consider a currency whose primary use case involves breaking the law to be a net negative for society.

Do you really believe any law would be broken any less if Bitcoin didn't exist? Should we also condemn BitTorrent for the same reason?