Almost all violent crime can be traced back to the drugs, not because of some inherent quality in the drug itself, and not because of some malevolent human element, rather because the monopoly profits earned by cartels in the drug trade are sufficient to compensate for the costs of war, and the illusion of these profits is sufficient to entice those willing to do the dirty work.
I’ve seen variations on the “repudiate the debt” meme floating around the internet, but the best one I’ve come across to-date, was in Another Extreme Meme That Needs to Get Out There – Default, at Samizdata (if you can skip past all the totally unnecessary, and tangential “kill all muslims” bullshit in the first paragraph or two): It needs to be said that under certain circumstances easily now imaginable, many Western citizens would argue,...
Un justification de l’existence des gouvernements, sélon Hobbes, suggères qu’il y aurait toujours les mauvaises gens personnes, motivés par la facilité apparent de gagner par le vol ou la tricherie....
