In the end he knew about the strict drug laws in the US and he still broke it. It doesn't matter how musch people think this is unfair. You don't even need to know the law of your country to still be responsible when breaking it. If you spend your holidays in a country, where you get jail for "public kissing", it doesn't help saying you didn't know. Ross is an intelligent guy. He can't tell the people, that this was an "economic experiment", when in fact he was simply earning commission from illegal goods, just like Pablo Escobar and all the other leaders of drug empires. Even worse, he didn't organise his business eye to eye, but everything with the anonimity of the internet. Simply write some lines and somebody gets killed! It's as easy as that. No more meetings with shady killers and handing over big money in a paperbag. He might have been a nice guy once, but based on the presented evidence it looks like he has changed a lot into a mercyless drug lord.
You have some decent points and some not so decent imo.
I know for sure i wont be spending my life supporting/keeping track of the BS laws the centralized govs make up. If we all follow the laws to the letter and never push boundaries things would get even worse for the average man in society. The more controlled we are the better it is for elites so the goal posts just shift inward if we all good boys and girls. Its not really about morality & it should be.
I'm not sure they used any charges of hire murders vs Ross in the case so we dont know anything conclusive there do we?
A just system wouldn't be putting him in a maximum security prison for life. What a waste of tax money and waste of an intelligent forward thinking human. Give him community service im sure we could use his insight.
I think you can argue it was an economic experiment as it was the first of its kind, but that doesn't mean it wasn't highly illegal. Maybe SR and the markets that follow will pave the way for drug reform or a change in the laws or at least decentralized markets which LE will have a very tricky time trying to police given their nature. I think Ross was silly to have been a resident in the states whilst running it. He seemed to travel a lot so he should have just holed up in some far away country and operated it from there and they would have had a very difficult time trying to arrest him then.
I agree with the unjustice in most, if not all drug laws, but that is another level of discussion. There is already a ongoing political debate in Europe about the cannabis laws for example, which might lead to the legality of cannabis in a few years. Since there are no deaths resulting from the use of cannabis in its history, there IS a basis for a rational discussion. Now selling things like Heroin (created by the Bayer company in Germany as far as I know), is a completely different story to me. People are dying from this crap and guys, that are selling it or making it easy for everyone to buy it, are not acting for the "freedom of society", but for their own profit with the risk of his "product" causing the death to someone. This person is indeed a danger to society and should be locked up.
I still hope to be proven wrong, though - maybe because the logfiles were altered or something like that, or he was really "tricked back in", like he stated in court.
