Would you be okay with one drug dealer potentially distributing, you know, thousands of dollars of fentanyl,

killing, let's say, 10 people over the course of a year in order to get a kingpin that's going to stop, you know, 20,000 people from dying in the next two years?

I think a lot of people would be like, yeah, I'm okay losing 10 to save 20,000.

But when it comes to the idea of, like, traumatizing and victimizing, exploiting children, I think people draw very different lines. And they hear, like, oh, a child was abused. We need to kill the guy immediately. And so as a result, like, I imagine that the federal bureau is looking at this

in the same way. They're like, crime is crime. And, you know, we're building a case against a guy.

We're getting information, whatever. And they're being like, yeah, we're going to let, you know,

five, ten, twenty more kids get victimized. But we're going to be able to figure out an armed

deal that's happening from a legal money that's getting offshore we're going to be able to figure out an armed deal that's happening

from a legal money that's getting offshore, that's going to start a coup in Guatemala that's

then going to affect the entire geopolitical stability. What is better? Yeah. And for the average

American, I imagine that they're like, fuck that. Yeah. Like save the kids. Yeah. But again, these are the

calculations that governments make that don't see people as people.

They see statistics and they evaluate this sort of, you know, utilitarian good.

And don't make, don't make, uh, I don't want anyone to feel like it's uniform across government.

I promise you that the FBI handling agent or the CIA handling agent or the DEA handling agent

or whoever it is who's handling the case is disgusted by what they have to do.

But they've been recruited, they've been trained, and they've been tasked for a reason,

and they sleep just

fine at night most likely.

This is why there's a hierarchy in government, because it's not the field agent who makes

the call.

It's not their field supervisor who makes the call.

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