Are DNM's a new tool to make money or a vehicle for social change, and what role should the forums play? Advertizing or purely information platforms?

Are DNM's the symbol of freedom in the 21st century or simply a anonymous way for criminals to make money are questions I found myself asking after my recent experiences on DNM's and the forums.

And are those 2 perspectives mutually exclusive or do they enhance each other?

Are DNM's the symbols of freedom, the middle finger against government control or are they actually vehicles for criminals and governments to exercise control through the spread of drugs and the addiction that follows of these designed chemicals?

Do they serve a purpose in the public health industry? Is using drugs really that 'cool' or 'anti authority' as movies songs and media make it out to be or does it actually make government control easier through the dependency it creates?

In that light DNM's are vehicles for distributing dependency on government institutions more easy and widespreading than antiquated organized crime did.

Should we not re-think the system we are living in and the conditions which create our addictions?


Comments


[5 Points] noneyabidnessbish:

I think the DNM's show that the vast majority of our community (vendors and buyers) seek a safer alternative to the norm.

On the streets Vendors and buyers have concerns like being robbed, beaten, raped, killed, given bad product. You may be going to dangerous areas where the chances of these things happening are heightened as well.

Online, we have escrow, multi sig, CHOICES (we are not bound by our location). Vendors and buyers are afforded the kind of protections you get from places like amazon (disputes, etc).

Are there folks who try to scam the system? sure, but that is where this community steps in. We inform each other whose product is good, who is turning scammer, etc.


[1 Points] samwhiskey:

Both and both.


[1 Points] goat_tiggies:

You're looking at the big picture when you should be looking at the individuals. Vendors, of course, want to make money. Maybe some of them think it's cool but those types never last long. Rationalizing vendors is easy.

Users, on the other hand, are fsr more complicated. Most of them simply want drugs. Many of them fully educated on and willing to accept the risks of taking said drug. Others are not, and their reasons for ordering are their own. Could be the cool factor, stress, curiosity, peer pressure...who knows.

Not everything has to have a deep agenda...I'd say most people just want their pills, plants and chems delivered to their door and could care less about what others think or do.


[1 Points] ScorchedTerran:

You have asked many deep questions in a small space. I will answer one or two.

Dnm's Are a venue for social change. Take note of how hard the government (international, federal, state, and local) are trying to stop it. They do not get to control it nor profit from their importation of if there.

People all have their varying reasons for using. A lot of it stems from the system of control the government has placed on our society, which results from the people who have been voted in, by the people who have become despondent and have acquiesced to this system of control... Round and round we go...

It is, and always will be about power and control. For some, doing drugs gives the illusion of breaking that hold for even a little while, a respite if you will.