Mexico's Real War: it's not Drugs

[Mango]

Re: Mexico's Real War: it's not Drugs

I can't agree. To call criminal activities "entreprenurial" serves to glorify the individuals involved and to condone the actions. We should stand for neither. Would you be proud if your son or daughter were Pablo Escobar or Al Capone or Bernie Madoff? All were quite entreprenurial under your definition.

We can distinguish between types and causes of criminal activity. Regarding drug dealers, whether we call them "entrepreneurs" or "opportunistic infections" does little to address the reason they exist unless we look beyond labels to the conditions that enable those enterprises, particularly poverty and absurd drug laws. Poverty might not be so easily abolished, but drug laws could be changed overnight just as Prohibition was. Then all the money wasted on drugs and drug enforcement could flow toward more productive enterprises and perhaps eliminate some of the poverty.