Dr. Xanthe Weston
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But no, oh my God, we wouldn't support that.
But I'll go and buy my cheap cigarettes because I don't want to pay you 50 bucks a pack, right?
Which, yeah, okay.
But you're actually giving this money to these organised criminals just like when you buy illicit alcohol.
But
So it feels like it's only one person doing something a bit naughty.
But actually, the people engaging with black market goods are feeding this industry and causing this harm.
If there was no money in it, these criminals wouldn't be doing it.
But I totally get why those little acts that look like more like you're being a little bit deviant rather than breaking the law, you know.
You're being a bit naughty because you're not doing what you're told by overage of the government, right?
That's how it feels.
Whereas actually by buying them, you're feeding those underground trades, which leads to real serious harm.
You know, every one of our neighbourhoods, there'll be people who've been sex trafficked.
or being used um as you know free labor in homes so if you just look around like you won't see it because it's very covert but it's there it's the same people
That's lovely.
Was there a comma after it?
Was it well punctuated?
But also it doesn't even say what they want.
And that's been something that's been a question over all of these bombings.
No demands have actually been made.