Which is worse: drug dealing or arms dealing?!

Is interesting the question. Both dealings are illegal and both products kills but I would say drug dealing is worse because drugs serve no purpose whereas guns serve a purpose: to defend and/or kill!

Drugs do serve a purpose, they serve a huge purpose. Just look at the pharmaceutical industry and modern medicine as proof, those are drugs no matter which way you look at it. Yes, hard drugs like crack, meth, and heroin are destroyers of lives and cause much more harm than good, but even meth and heroin have synthetic and semi-synthetic pharmaceutical derivatives which are used as legal medicine. Drugs are a double-edged sword, just like everything else in life, including guns.

The biggest difference between weapons and illegal hard drugs in my mind is the fact that drugs can take over every aspect of someones life when abused, while weapons are used by certain governments and organizations to control every aspect of peoples lives. Weapons, for the most part, are controlled by people and not the other way around, the true determining factor of if a weapon is bad or good comes down to whose hands it is in and what it is used for, and whether those who possess the weapons can be trusted with them, or whether they will only use those weapons for purposes of control and power over others through fear, intimidation, and ultimately violence.

I'm sure we can all agree though that nuclear weapons are terrible no matter whose hands they are in, with the Hiroshima as Nagasaki bombings as proof, although they may have been necessary to an extent there is no denying that the destruction those weapons cause is too great for any government, organization, or individual to possess. Nuclear weapons can be used to hold entire countries hostage if placed in the wrong hands and used for the wrong purposes, and those from the Cold War generation truly know the potential that nuclear weapons have for destroying everything we have built and worked towards as a global civilization.

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.

Guns are worse. You can wipe out an entire village in 15 mins with few guns. It could take months with drugs.
Either way our governments will keep both around for long long time.


“It's always funny until someone gets hurt. Then it's just hilarious.” Bill Hicks

I partly agree with you that "both products kill", but you should look at WHO gets killed by the products.
With arms dealing, it's OTHER people who get killed, while it's the guys buying the weapons that do the killing. So it's not so easy to avoid getting killed by those products.
But with drug dealing, it's those who buy and use the products that get killed.
Big difference.

I'd say that arms dealing is definately worse. And the main reason why drug dealing is bad, is because the ones who producs the drugs in the first place, use the money to buy guns in order to keep their wars running.

If drugs suddenly became legal, so there would be no need for illegal production and dealing in drugs, a large part of the wars in the world would suddenly stop. Because the warring parts wouldn't be able to afford it anymore.

You should have asked " which is worse: making/selling alcohol & cigarettes or arms dealing ? " seeing as how alcohol and cigarettes cause more death and destruction than heroin, cocaine or meth combined.

Heroin aside from the possibility of an overdose causes almost no physiological damage to the body whatsoever.

Drugs don't serve a purpose. Okay lets all just ignore the last millennia of medicine shall we?

Drug dealing, no one gets addicted to guns

both on same level.