Avon’s hotshots were worse than anything Marlo did on the show

[AnonymityX1000]

He laced it with strychnine...rat poison. Straight up murder. I see yall on some blame the victim shyt though.

Are you even considering the comparison we are making? Marlo killed people fukkin' minding their business doing their job.

 

[AnonymityX1000]

I may be way off base here but my line of thinking is, how is lacing an illegal substance really all of his murderous responsibility? the dude shouldnt have been buying and selling H so he is the main one at fault. @jayshiggs its also at the addicts risk to take the H. without those two things Avon couldnt even set his plan off. I just warned a friend of this recently about doing coke. you dont know who cut it with what in some instances. if you die it was at your own risk. does the legal ramifications change when lacing an already illegal substance?

Yeah, like you said to your friend it needs to be a consideration when doing hard drugs, shyt can be poisonous even if it shouldn't be.

 

[Dusty Bake Activate]

Are you even considering the comparison we are making? Marlo killed people fukkin' minding their business doing their job.

The people who snorted rat poison and died were minding their business to.

It seems your moral argument is they were dopefiends so their lives shouldn’t be as valued that much. I disagree.

 

[MJ Truth]

If they didn’t use it...they wouldn’t have died.

that’s totally different from the security guard trying to do his job or Snitching Randy’s foster mom having to die in a fire.

If she didn’t take in foster kids she wouldn’t have died. If the security guard stayed inside and let it go he wouldn’t have died. It’s not that different, it’s all the same slope. Avon knew people would die lol.

 

[Squirrel from Meteor Man]

If she didn’t take in foster kids she wouldn’t have died. If the security guard stayed inside and let it go he wouldn’t have died. It’s not that different, it’s all the same slope. Avon knew people would die lol.

Those things they’re doing don’t necessarily come with inherent risks of being murdered though lol. I mean a security guard sure, but being fire bombed isn’t a risk associated a foster mom. I see what you’re saying though, I just thinks the addicts know what they’re getting into.

Avon was a beast in his own right but Marlo took it to higher levels. He had no conscience at all

 

[Dusty Bake Activate]

If she didn’t take in foster kids she wouldn’t have died. If the security guard stayed inside and let it go he wouldn’t have died. It’s not that different, it’s all the same slope. Avon knew people would die lol.

The entire point of the 3rd season and one of the main lessons from The Wire is America by treating drug addiction as a criminal justice problem instead of a public health crisis, and that has led to a racist system of militaristic policing and prison profiteering that traps and destroys so many young black men like Deangelo.

Dudes in this thread like "They did heroin, fukk em."

 

[Squirrel from Meteor Man]

The entire point of the 3rd season and one of the main lessons from The Wire is America by treating drug addiction as a criminal justice problem instead of a public health crisis, and that has led to a racist system of militaristic policing and prison profiteering that traps and destroys so many young black men like Deangelo.

Dudes in this thread like "They did heroin, fukk em."

You’re missing the entire point of your thread. You said Avon was “worse” than Marlo moralistically, when all of the evidence says otherwise.

Avon believed in the Sunday truce. Marlo didn’t believe in a damn thing. That was the point of his character: to show how desensitized the generations become over time.

 

[Dusty Bake Activate]

You’re missing the entire point of your thread. You said Avon was “worse” than Marlo moralistically, when all of the evidence says otherwise.

Avon believed in the Sunday truce. Marlo didn’t believe in a damn thing. That was the point of his character: to show how desensitized the generations become over time.

You should probably read my thread again before you tell me I'm missing the point of it lol. I said I think Avon's action of intentionally lacing heroin with rat poison so that all the prisoners who sniffed that batch that morning would die a horrible violent death is morally worse than any individual action Marlo took on the show.

It was murder against random targets who did nothing at all to him just so he could get out early. The only way you can you try and downplay how bad it was is to say they deserved to die for sniffing heroin. Even if they knew the risk, that doesn't change the fact that the package was INTENTIONALLY poisoned by Avon with the hope of causing multiple deaths.

 

[AnonymityX1000]

The people who snorted rat poison and died were minding their business to.

It seems your moral argument is they were dopefiends so their lives shouldn’t be as valued that much. I disagree.

Dope fiend or not doing drugs in jail is illegal. They are part of the drug game. A lady deliverying beverages to a convenience store isn't.

 

[Squirrel from Meteor Man]

You should probably read my thread again before you tell me I'm missing the point of it lol. I said I think Avon's action of intentionally lacing heroin with rat poison so that all the prisoners who sniffed that batch that morning would die a horrible violent death is morally worse than any individual action Marlo took on the show.

It was murder against random targets who did nothing at all to him just so he could get out early. The only way you can you try and downplay how bad it was is to say they deserved to die for sniffing heroin. Even if they knew the risk, that doesn't change the fact that the package was INTENTIONALLY poisoned by Avon with the hope of causing multiple deaths.

So, you’re saying Avon killed innocent people intentionally so he could get out of prison early.

Marlo had an innocent delivery woman killed so he could get Omar locked up. What’s the difference?

 

[Dusty Bake Activate]

Dope fiend or not doing drugs in jail is illegal. They are part of the drug game. A lady deliverying beverages to a convenience store isn't.

They’re addicts who are only part of the drug game cause drugs are criminalized.

Drugs shouldn’t be criminalized. That’s kinda the point of the show.

 

[Dusty Bake Activate]

So, you’re saying Avon killed innocent people intentionally so he could get out of prison early.

Marlo had an innocent delivery woman killed so he could get Omar locked up. What’s the difference?

5>1.

 

[Squirrel from Meteor Man]

5>1.

You don’t know what those 5 people were locked up for.

 

[AnonymityX1000]

They’re addicts who are only part of the drug game cause drugs are criminalized.

Drugs shouldn’t be criminalized. That’s kinda the point of the show.

Compare that to someone that was just minding their business doing something not part of the drug game? You won't, because it messes up your point. It is at least equally as bad.

 

[Dusty Bake Activate]

You don’t know what those 5 people were locked up for.

He doesn’t either. He didn’t care who or how many died. The victims were random. Could’ve been someone else’s nephew like Deangelo. Pretty evil.