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EscapeFromNY

If someone is buying weed on a darknet site, would you feel morally justified in stealing from them?

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It they aren't stealing from someone then that's not the same game.

A guy selling credit card numbers, given the opportunity he'd have nothing left.

> If someone is buying weed on a darknet site, would you feel morally justified in stealing from them?

No, but I'd guess that GP feels morally justified in buying weed from him or selling weed to him.

If the weed-buyer isn't playing the theft game, why do you believe that the GP would play the theft game?

This is an article about darknet markets, and when I hear "darknet markets" I think of drugs. The impression I get from Bruce Schneier's blog is that other shady stuff like stealing credit cards or murder-for-hire sites (which are all fake) mostly happens on the clearnet. So it was odd to see someone make the casual jump from darknet markets to theft/murder.

I was thinking of sites that deal exclusively in carding, scams, fencing stolen goods, etc.

If your actions have blowback on morally innocent people (ie. Technically a law was broken but it was a crime without a direct victim), inadvertently or not, you are not acting morally.

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