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The comment you replied to referenced "multiple teenagers" - the very people that liquor stores cannot sell alcohol to since they're not recognized as mature en

by realce 2y ago

The comment you replied to referenced "multiple teenagers" - the very people that liquor stores cannot sell alcohol to since they're not recognized as mature enough to be freely allowed to drink. SR allowed children to buy addictive poison without any regulation whatsoever, and Ross profited off of those transactions. These are not comparable institutions.

loeg 2y ago
Teenagers routinely drink alcohol and sometimes die.
- xmprt 2y ago
  And businesses that knowingly sell alcohol to minors are charged with a crime.
  - echoangle 2y ago
    Sure, but the crime isn’t murder. And they aren’t getting life for it.
    - Pesthuf 2y ago
      If their business sold alcohol to as many teenagers as the Silk Road has sold drugs, then yes, they would get life.
      - butlike 2y ago
        Then why isn't the CEO of anheiser-busch given two consecutive life sentences plus 40 years?
        mc32 2y ago
        AB-InBev does not sell directly to consumers. They have a distributor model of operation.
        echoangle 2y ago
        You mean how Silk Road didn’t actually sell anything but was only a marketplace?
        realce 2y ago
        Doing business in, or running, a marketplace without established legal regulations opens you up to undefined consequences. Without laws to bind you, there are no laws to protect you.
  - paulddraper 2y ago
    Do they get multiple life sentences?
krispyfi 2y ago
You're right. Ross should have been granted a drug selling license, analogous to a liquor license, and it should have been revoked if he failed to check ID before allowing people to make purchases on his marketplace.
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