Papist wrote:umeu wrote:but if said children become addicted to these drugs, and as a result do desperate and/or stupid things to maintain that drug habbit when they grow up, you think its perfectly fine to send them out hunting these vicious criminals without any form of training, and if they die in the process, oh well, its their own bloody fault because they agreed to it?
And its totally fine for the police to keep doing this?
No, I don't think it's ok to send children out to do these dangerous things. But this girl isn't a child, so I'm not sure how that sentiment applies here. I think it's fine to let people make their own choices, yes. This girl wasn't forced to do anything. Why are people acting like she was some sort of helpless toddler who the police took advantage of? She made a choice, just like she made a choice to sell drugs and get other people hooked. If she felt uncomfortable, she should have just done her time.
you misunderstood my argument. you said drugdealers are bad because they get our youth addicted to drugs. im talking about children, because its a fair assumption to make that she got addicted to pot in her teens, perhaps she was 18, perhaps even a young adult and 20. the point is, these are still people that are groing up, most people do the dumbest shit in their early 20's. so its not like she has no responsibility, im not claiming that, im just that she is a victim of the druglords that destroy people with their drugs, but you say its totally fine for her to suffer for that by the hands of people that combat the druglords. you have a super narrow idea about how people get into this in the first place. many of those evil drug sellers are people who come from places where they are getting hooked on drugs as kids and then sell it later, some get hooked on it as adults, and then start to sell it to maintain their habbit, at this point, you already cant expect them to behave as reasonable intelligent adults. there are very few people who start to sell drugs without ever having been a druggy, its not breaking bad...
you keep going on about the fact that she had a choice, but you completely disregard the point that we make, that she was offered that choice, and she never shouldve been offered that choice to begin with. Why? because the way that choice was presented to her, it was just very likely to result in her death, and the police, as professionals they ought to be, should have realised this and not given her THAT choice. And I'm quite sure that they didnt inform her properly about the risks, because no sane person would accept such a risk if they really understood it. Obviously there is a point to be made that at the point she was, she couldnt be considered sane any longer. Which is all the more reason to NOT have offered her that choice.