There are very real costs to the national economy that result from killing, harming, or incapacitating millions of otherwise-capable working-age folks by knowingly getting them addicted to opioids and building the business infrastructure to expand that influence as wide as possible. Surely there is a law that can be interpreted to compensate for the effects that this campaign has wrought on society.
> There are very real costs to the national economy that result from killing, harming, or incapacitating millions of otherwise-capable working-age folks
and then there's the killing, harming, or incapacitating millions of folks, on top of that!
Yes I was only appealing to the legalistic interpretation. The larger story is that such evil is banal-ified when we stick to arguing only for legal interpretations of their choices and actions.
Eichmann in Jerusalem helps cast light on what people mean when they talk about things like systemic harms.
