Do you ever feel sorry for drug dealers?

freshpopcorn · 23-07-2016 05:02PM #1

Recently in our town two young people got caught with a large about of drugs(over €100,000)
I noticed a few people on social media were defending these people saying the Gardai only went after them because they were easy targets and they don't care because they only target the small timers.
They also went on about their background saying they were from council estates/etc sayint they disnt know better or saw a future but from I know there's rarely trouble in these estates and people have grown up to be wide variety of things. From what I saw the people giving out were anti Garda/etc.
I personally don't really feel sorry for these people at all.
Do you ever feel sorry for drug dealers?

failinis · 23-07-2016 05:04PM

freshpopcorn wrote: »

Do you ever feel sorry for drug dealers?

Drug dealers? No.
Drug addicts? To some extent.

Grab All Association · 23-07-2016 05:05PM

I only feel sorry for the victims of drug addiction.

JL98 · 23-07-2016 05:05PM

Given the chance they will turn from "small timers" to "big timers" and i highly doubt any drug dealer feels sorry for all the lives and familys they have destroyed, so no.

Barry Badrinath · 23-07-2016 05:06PM

No

Fcuk them, pack of cnuts

endacl · 23-07-2016 05:07PM

What a strange question...

wonski · 23-07-2016 05:08PM

100000 euro worth of drugs is not a small amount of drugs

Garda got this one right.

Fox_In_Socks · 23-07-2016 05:09PM

Pharmacists, with their high salaries and their dispensaries.:mad:

Not an iota of sympathy.

Toobz · 23-07-2016 05:10PM

All the time...poor them

Steve012 · 23-07-2016 05:30PM

failinis wrote: »

Drug dealers? No.
Drug addicts? To some extent.

+1

FISMA. · 23-07-2016 05:33PM

freshpopcorn wrote: »

Recently in our town two young people got caught with a large about of drugs(over €100,000)
...

freshpopcorn wrote: »

... the Gardai only went after them because they [...] only target the small timers.

23-07-2016 05:33PM

Grab All Association wrote:

I only feel sorry for the victims of drug addiction.

Some dealers are addicts so some are victims too. It's hard to know where to draw the line.
I think a simple way for me to say it is I have no sympathy for anyone who makes money from drugs.

23-07-2016 05:40PM

wonski wrote:

100000 euro worth of drugs is not a small amount of drugs Garda got this one right.

100,000 Street value. Street value is whatever amount of hash you are caught with worked out how many joints you can get out of it. Same with coke. Es are 15 euro each Street value but if you just bought 1000 of them you only paid 1000 euro not 15000 euro. Value is always 5 times or more than what is actually worth.
Not sticking up for them. Just explaining Street value. Cops did a good job

Cuddlesworth · 23-07-2016 05:45PM

freshpopcorn wrote: »

They also went on about their background saying they were from council estates/etc sayint they disnt know better or saw a future but from I know there's rarely trouble in these estates and people have grown up to be wide variety of things.

Their are hundreds of thousands of people in Ireland who grew up in a council estates, that have had varying degrees of success that didn't involve importing illegal substances. At worst you can sit on your arse all day and take the dole.

s4uv3 · 23-07-2016 05:51PM

I spent my teenage years living on a council estate and I don't sell drugs. It's no excuse.

Drug addicts have some of my sympathy, drug dealers can fcuk off, the scumbags.

Hologram · 23-07-2016 05:53PM

freshpopcorn wrote: »

a few people on social media were defending these people saying the Gardai only went after them because they were easy targets and they don't care because they only target the small timers.

LOL

wonski · 23-07-2016 05:55PM

Sleeper12 wrote: »

100,000 Street value. Street value is whatever amount of hash you are caught with worked out how many joints you can get out of it. Same with coke. Es are 15 euro each Street value but if you just bought 1000 of them you only paid 1000 euro not 15000 euro. Value is always 5 times or more than what is actually worth.
Not sticking up for them. Just explaining Street value. Cops did a good job

I know it is street value, not a case of small timer user dealer in this case, though.

Thanks for explaining - small timer it was not indeed.

SEPT 23 1989 · 23-07-2016 05:55PM

Depends on what they are selling

Mightydrumming · 23-07-2016 05:57PM

By far one of the strangest questions.

Not in the very slightest.

Mardy Bum · 23-07-2016 05:59PM

What about Michael, Randie, Dookie and Boodie?

stimpson · 23-07-2016 06:00PM

Sleeper12 wrote: »

Es are 15 euro each Street value

You're being ripped off pal.

MilesMorales1 · 23-07-2016 06:01PM

Drug addicts for sure, its ****ing horrible and I think they need more support than they get.
The dealers get nothing from me, scum of the earth simple. I grew up on a council estate and so did most of the people I know, yet very few of us (far as I'm aware) feel the need to poison other peoples lives with that ****.

Smondie · 23-07-2016 06:04PM

Legalise it and get on with it. The amount of money we are spending trying to stop it when we could be all millionaires.

Ronald Wilson Reagan · 23-07-2016 06:09PM

Some sympathy for John Delorean as he was set up by a rat working for the feds, otherwise cant think of any id have the slightest bit of sympathy for.

The Rape of Lucretia · 23-07-2016 06:21PM

Of course they deserve our sympathy.
They are victims of a hypocritical and unequal society, that takes advantage of their vulnerability : those who are better off hold the conflicting views that they want people to deal them drugs, but that no one should deal in drugs. So chew up these poor guys and then spit them out every now and again when their lives are ruined, as a means of collective societal rejection of what they do.
The drug dealers really have little chance and are ruthlessly exploited by the better off.

Brasros · 23-07-2016 06:47PM

They should be treated like vermin and put down.

Capt'n Midnight · 23-07-2016 06:47PM

Big Pharma spending Billions on marketing and fines for doing illegal stuff.

And then they expect sympathy when people immediately ditch them for cheaper generics the minute the patents expire.

Hint
If your customers only buy from you because you have a legally enforced monopoly then don't expect people to feel any sympathy. :mad:

beach_walker · 23-07-2016 06:47PM

Ah no, not really.

I knew a lad in college who was well into his libertarian politics. I met him a few years later, he'd been laid off a few months before. Told me that he didn't sign on (owing to his political beliefs) and instead started dealing. He's got principles, I'll give him that.

mynamejeff · 23-07-2016 07:44PM

beach_walker wrote: »

Ah no, not really.

I knew a lad in college who was well into his libertarian politics. I met him a few years later, he'd been laid off a few months before. Told me that he didn't sign on (owing to his political beliefs) and instead started dealing. He's got principles, I'll give him that.

whats his boards username ?

freshpopcorn · 23-07-2016 07:49PM

It was more than € 100,000 that was seized by the Gardai. What I'm saying is true about people trying to defend them on the Internet.

FizzleSticks · 23-07-2016 08:55PM

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