Can You Feel Compassion for a Drug Dealer?

Question by Manny R: Can you feel compassion for a drug dealer?
everyone on this sites seems to hate dealers as if they were the devil himself. I’m from Roxbury MA (part of Boston) and a lot of the kids in my HS deal but because they’re families are living in poverty or don’t care for their children and drug money is the only way for them to get decent food, clothes, and support for their siblings. One side of me hates dealers because they bring down the community but another side feels sorry for the teenager living in degradation who feels like it’s hopelss. Any opinions?

Best answer:

Answer by Barly C
It depends on their circumstances and what got them there. Of course, I have no sympathy for some snotty well-to-do kid who gets into drugs and starts dealing to support their habit. Of course I don’t condone drug dealing. There are always other choices. There is always something else you can do.

But sometimes it seems people are doomed to that kind of life. It’s like they already have the path paved out for them since birth. I’ve noticed, for instance, that if you’re born into a specific social class you’re most likely going to remain in that class, for better or worse, until the day you die.

But, as they say, you can’t tell which way the train went by looking at the tracks.

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