So your only disagreement with the Huffington ad is the singling out? If it had targeted all users of petroleum products, you would agree with it?
I can't believe, though, you actually take this seriously.
Take what seriously? I don't think buying drugs or petroleum products makes one morally complicit in terrorism.
No. It was, though, a point that showed your statement was wrong about their equivalence.
If it had targeted all users of petroleum products, you would agree with it?
No. It is demagogic.
I understand you are one of the arrested development drug obsessed types and you think the other was demagogic and it bothers you.
As far as this, though, the purchase of oil vs purchase of illegal drugs and how much may go to terrorist groups is not nearly equivalent.
It would be like making no distinction between prescription drugs and illegal drugs as far as where the profits go.
That we are too dependent on ME oil is a fine point. Huffington doesn't even come close to making it. Nor is her attempt to make it rational or honest.
My advice to you is to stop taking illegal drugs. It messes up your thought.
Neither claim moral complicence. That was the whole point of the ad - that support was fostered unknowingly by drug use or driving an SUV.
You are such a silly person.
What you're missing is that while some of our petroleum dollars *might* be diverted to terrorism, money spent on illegal drugs goes *directly* to drug cartels, which *directly* participate in terrorism themselves as part of the way they "do business".
You may buy your dope from friendly Joe, the neighborhood drug distributor, but your dollars *will* end up in the hands of some really nasty organized crime families, who *aren't* in the business of doing charity work.
Petroleum dollars, on the other hand, go to oil companies around the world, and/or governments. The fact that some of them *might* use a portion of their fungible dollars to divert towards terrorism is a separate, indirect effect, not one that can be laid directly at the feet of the American gasoline consumer.
You can buy gas without necessarily putting money on the pockets of organized crime. You *can't* do the same with your illegal drug purchases, because it's run and controlled *by* organized crime, directly.