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This is a comment that says that trying to have someone killed might not be "that bad of a a choice" if they are trying to report people to law enforcement.


"Law enforcement" does not refer to your friendly neighborhood patrol officers in this context. In the war on drugs, "law enforcement" refers to teams of soldiers who attack civilian homes following these kinds of anonymous tips.

My only point was that we should not immediately assume that reporting SR users to the police is a morally justifiable thing to do, and that the morals of killing someone to protect SR users are not unambiguous. I also said that more likely than not, if DPR tried to order such a hit it was because he was worried about his business, not his customers or the innocent bystanders who might be harmed by police raids.


I'm not sure how our differing opinions about the morality of reporting someone to law enforcement over drug sales is relevant to the question of the justifiability of having someone killed.




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