There’s different levels of dealers too. The guys moving big weights and the runner getting paid in gear and all in between.
The guy living in luxury that shifts kilos is affecting more lives than the junkie being exploited to do drops for his fix. Would u think the same of both? Or is one more immoral than the other?
Mmm, it's a good question. Generally though I still don't think dealing in and of itself is immoral. In the same sense as I don't blame the owners of large liquor companies for people's alcoholism.
In practice, a lot of the people higher up on the food chain probably are indeed immoral because of other, genuinely immoral behaviors such business entails.
Another issue I have, is I don't like making moral judgements of entire groups of people. Because I know so little about the specifics of how the people in that group came to find themselves playing that role.
I find it hard to blame people for doing things that it's inevitable that people in general will do.
So long as there's a market, there will always be someone there trying to fill it. Because we all need some way to support ourselves in life.
Which is why I focus my anger about how people are hurt by drugs on societies leadership.
Because there is one way, and one way only in reality that we could stop most of the harms of the illegal drug market. And that's to provide an alternative.
We have had decades of focusing on dealers, and blaming criminals or users for all the harm done. It doesn't work, it doesn't get us anywhere.
The answer, or the closest there is to a single answer, is to accept that people will do drugs, and form a more caring and compassionate society that's more interested in helping people than blaming people.
Which is why I'm not inclined to blame or make moral judgements on the people who have no singular ability to affect such change.
But in terms of the hypothetical "is it moral" question. If dealing is in itself immoral, then I figure so must selling tobacco, or alcohol.
Is the girl barely 18 years old selling me my cigarettes immoral for doing so? She's participating in the sale of a product that kills.
Are the people who worked at the pawn shop who provided me a way to easily sell all my stuff for drug money immoral for facilitating my destroying my life?
I don't think so. I'm an adult. I made my choices. They were choices made under duress yes, but they were still my choices.
If I blame them, I gotta blame myself first and foremost. I'd rather not blame anyone and just accept that it is what it is. And that solutions to these problems broadly are up to those leading society. Not those in the ground in the middle of it.