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I'll bite.

<devil's advocate> Drug dealers/producers produce products that provide the user with exotic and novel experiences and which may increase the user's sociability. Similar to the travel industry and a personal life coach in a small form factor, drugs are good/service that many people seem to want. </devil's advocate>



If you believe that drugs add value to people's life, then you've chosen the world you want to live in. I chose to believe that (addictive) drugs are really a tax levied on people with weaknesses to be exploited (we all have weaknesses that can be exploited). The purchase of addictive drugs doesn't create value but redistributes wealth from the folks that are weak to the exploiters of that weakness. I don't value drug wealth. That's the world I choose to live in.


<spaghetti monster's advocate> Values vary; the world you live in is only one planet.</spagetti monster's advocate>


I don't believe that (see the devil's advocate tags...). But, some people obviously do.




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