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Drug dealers: blame our customers not us for selling drugs

No one will ever accept this kind of argument from a drug dealer, but yet they happily admit this kind of argument from this and other countless companies that business practices go against the public interest.

Anyone can tell me why?

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Uh, plenty of people accept this argument, it’s part of the idea of the movement behind legalizing all/most drugs.

Look at marijuana, the drug dealer is now a business, and very few people are mad at dispensaries for selling pot.

In the end, if it wasn’t them, it would be someone else. If governments weren’t buying spyware from NSO, they would be making it themselves or finding another group who builds exploits.

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