How do you feel about a drug dealer in his or her early 20's that paid their own way through college?

Question

How do you think they should be punnished compared to a drug dealer that only deals drugs?

Answer 1

I think it's fine. I have many friends that paid for college this way. Of course the drug of choice is just weed, because that's really all you need to sell to pay for college, anything more is greedy. Plus weed won't kill you, unlike some other drugs.

Now, what you have to be careful about is that you need to stop dealing after college. While in school the police are more lenient, when you're out...watch out...a few friends continued after they finished school....and well....they're lucky the system in Canada is lenient.

DAMMIT PEOPLE WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO REALIZE THAT DEALERS DON'T SELL DRUGS! THEY OFFER THE DRUGS, AND THE DRUGS SELL THEMSELVES!

Answer 2

I think the whole notion or what is "right" and what is "wrong" is growing even more misguided than ever, with the way the world works these days.

So what if someone paid their way through school by selling drugs? If you really think about it, it is not any different than someone paying their way through working working in a fair park, a veterinarian hospital or prostitution.

A job is a job, and where someone gets the money from doesn't matter, since it is their own personal life and does not affect you in any way - unless you are one of the people buying the drugs off them.

Certain drugs, yes, are illegal for a reason, but so long as it is simply marijuana or ecstasy, which are both relatively harmless in small doses, why should someone be punished when a lot of drug users' lives are so bad that the only happiness they find each day is the 4 hour smoking sessions or 15 hour high of a lolly?

Really, summed up, everyone is more about butting into everyone else's private lives than keeping to yourself and have respect for other people's privacy.

Answer 3

A drug dealer, whose customers are consenting adults and who does not cut their drugs with hazardous chemicals has the same morality as a bartender. If you don't consider bartending immoral, then drug dealing is not either. Plenty of people put themselves through college working the bar.

2 votes down, but no logical counter, funny that, isn't it? the legal status of an act does not in and of itself make something right or wrong ethically.

In fact one could quite happily argue that the decision to make recreational use of drugs a criminal rather than health issue in the 1920's is a perfect example of legality without ethics. Think of how few prisons would be needed if jails were only full of thieves and violent offenders and not just people who choose an alternative drug to alchohol as their recreational drug of choice. The War on Drugs has left a trail of corpses and ruined lives, but the most noticeable corpse is the notion of liberty itself.

Answer 4

Wow. Pretty interesting. Wasn't there a movie about this? Hmmm... Well, I mean, I would actually mind my own business and would rather not get involved... But it is totally him or her, so hey, they're smart, as a matter of fact.

But selling drugs to others is not a very nice thing. The buyers/consumers can suffer from overdose, death, ruined lives, while the dealer moves on with life.

Hmmm...

I'd say interesting indeed, because he/she is a drug dealer, whom of course would consume some sort of drug, but yet go to school. Must have been hard for him or her too to go through college.

The most humiliating and painful punishment he/she would be entitled to is reflecting on what he/she did, when he/she has a nice home one day and maybe even a family.

That to me sounds very psychologically painful.

Answer 5

Depends on what the drug is. I agree mostly with Quas F though. If we're talking about weed, more power to him.

Answer 6

Depends on if they were caught. If they were selling drugs to minors they should be in jail! It is not up to me to judge them.

A lot of people pay their way through college working as strippers!

Way, drugs are illegal and alcohol is not, whether you like it or not, so don't compare bartenders with dope dealers that cut their stuff with rat poison!

Answer 7

i think its kinda ok i guess. at least they were doing it for a good cause and were doing something with their life instead of dealing drugs just to have gear and jewlery, and new cars. they had a goal and dream and was working towards it. it might not have been the best was but you gotta do what u gotta do. jus like strippers be talkin bout they strip to pay for school. if they were punished they shouldn't get as much time as someone who wasn't doing anything with their life.

Answer 8

appalled that the person has prevented other bright humans from being able to advance their education. Be bright and make money legally and ethically. It is very easy to prey on others for personal gain. As they say, what goes round comes around. Beware the future.

Answer 9

So it would be okay for a child molester to open up a community center for a community that needed one? This act would somehow make him less of a molester and make his past acts more acceptable?

Hell no.

All the money he made to pay his way through college was at the expense of damaging other people with drugs.

Those of you saying that its okay as long as it doesn't bother you are incredibly stupid. It involves mankind, something we are all a part of.

The worst kind of evil isn't the activity of bad people...its the inactivity of good people.

What you are saying is that the ends justify the means. And in this instance, that is completely wrong. It doesnt matter it he chose to pay his way through college, chose to promote a better life for his family, or chose to live the life of a rockstar and party all the time. Wrong is wrong.

Answer 10

Drug dealing is drug dealing. They should get pretty much the same sentence as anyone else. But maybe they can use that college education to follow up with a Master's Degree while in prison?