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laundering money for drug dealers is not morally reprehensible in its own right (unless they are violent drug dealers);

Given the multiple pending murder-for-hire charges against Ulbricht, I don't think you can use "Silk Road is all about peace and love" as a get out clause here.

Shrem is on record as saying "Let me help you, BTCKing, avoid getting caught because I think Silk Road is cool". Not entirely surprising what the outcome was there ...

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I don't see how a state enforcing categorically insane policy, creating inevitable black market, creating an inevitable marketplace, creating an accidental king-pin, who has allegedly committed murder-for-fire has anything to do with the moral ground on which charlie shrem stands with laundering money for a drug dealer.

There are infinite silk roads and infinite drug dealers forever and always so long as drug policy remains like it is. The state itself is far, far more morally culpable for whatever true evil was actually brought on by Ulbricht than Shrem himself is.

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