[kaehurowing]

“Drug dealing” is a political crime. Pharmacists do the same exact thing but they have a piece of paper from the government saying it’s OK. Morally, there is zero difference.

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Except thousands of people don’t die after getting drugs from the pharmacist. Drug dealers should be seen for what they are, dispensers of poison, and executed like they are in Asia.

You do know that one of the major reasons the mortality rate in the U.S. is going up is because of fatal drug overdoses, don’t you?

Zero tolerance for drug dealers. Put them to death.

[philman_36]

Except thousands of people don’t die after getting drugs from the pharmacist.

You don't know what you don't know, do you.

Prescription Opioid Overdose Data

From 1999 to 2014, more than 165,000 people have died in the U.S. from overdoses related to prescription opioids.
Overdose Death RatesNational Overdose Deaths—Number of Deaths from Prescription Drugs. The figure above is a bar chart showing the total number of U.S. overdose deaths involving prescription drugs from 2001 to 2014. The chart is overlayed by a line graph showing the number of deaths by females and males. From 2001 to 2014 there was a 2.8-fold increase in the total number of deaths.

Death from Prescription Drugs: The New Epidemic Sweeping Across America

...from 1976 to 2006 (the most recent year available) they found that, of 62 million death certificates, almost a quarter-million deaths were coded as having occurred in a hospital setting due to medication errors.
Care to make a retraction?

[thoughtomator]

> Zero tolerance for drug dealers. Put them to death.

If I had to choose between one of them, or you, to put to death, I would choose you. At least the drug dealer minds his own business, whereas you would empower tyranny.

Of the two, you are the far more dangerous, and the one any sensible person should be most wary of.