# Am I a bad person for wishing all the Taliban fighters would get COVID? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 15, 2021, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-a-bad-person-for-wishing-all-the-taliban-fighters-would-get-covid/948744 "2021-08-15T22:13:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![PhillyGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@PhillyGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhillyGuy)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2021, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-a-bad-person-for-wishing-all-the-taliban-fighters-would-get-covid/948744/21 "2021-08-17T23:36:06Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > Legalizing it in Afghanistan would accomplish what exactly? Apologies for lack of clarity. I meant legalizing in the western countries, so long as not grown in Afghanistan, to cut off Taliban revenue. ---
**Author:** ![PhillyGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@PhillyGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhillyGuy)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2021, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-a-bad-person-for-wishing-all-the-taliban-fighters-would-get-covid/948744/22 "2021-08-17T23:52:12Z")
> [@Pardel-Lux](#): > > As I remember it (wikiconfirmed [here](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_production_in_Afghanistan#Rise_of_the_Taliban_(1994%E2%80%932001))) the Taliban actually opposed and banned heroin trade. I had long thought they just did that as a temporary ruse to raise world prices. But maybe I was taken in by a conspiracy theory. Your link suggests it was conceivably a cartel move, but far from proven to be that, 20 years ago, . However, today, the Taliban does allow and tax production: [Profits and poppy: Afghanistan’s illegal drug trade a boon for Taliban](https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/profits-poppy-afghanistans-illegal-drug-trade-boon-taliban-2021-08-16/) The Taliban are sincerely against local heroin consumption. I expect that Afghanistan’s heroin addicts are one of the less sympathetic groups worried about what comes next. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2021, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-a-bad-person-for-wishing-all-the-taliban-fighters-would-get-covid/948744/23 "2021-08-18T01:29:25Z")
I’m thinking more something less intense but with more long-term persistence, like recurring itchy hemorrhoids. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2021, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-a-bad-person-for-wishing-all-the-taliban-fighters-would-get-covid/948744/24 "2021-08-18T03:41:52Z")
Diarrhea and flatulence ARE COVID symptoms for some people. I have not been able to find this graphic, but shortly after 9/11, someone Photoshopped (or whatever it was called then) Osama bin Laden’s head on a man’s body, and the WTC tower with the big antenna on it was also Photoshopped to be raping said man. It was circulated extensively via e-mail, and I even saw some MTV news program where that picture was blown up to poster size and put on the wall, and fuzzied, but I knew what it was. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2021, 10:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-a-bad-person-for-wishing-all-the-taliban-fighters-would-get-covid/948744/25 "2021-08-18T10:28:20Z")
I wish all violent religious extremists of all religions everywhere on the planet to suddenly and mysteriously teleport _off_ the planet to somewhere in the vicenity of Pluto. That’s Boka Haram and ISIS and Al Qaeda and Y’all Qaeda and all of them. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2021, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-a-bad-person-for-wishing-all-the-taliban-fighters-would-get-covid/948744/26 "2021-08-18T23:46:10Z")
Pluto probably wouldn’t want them either! ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2021, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-a-bad-person-for-wishing-all-the-taliban-fighters-would-get-covid/948744/27 "2021-08-19T00:03:39Z")
Anywhere in the Kuiper Belt to Oort Cloud area would do nicely. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2021, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-a-bad-person-for-wishing-all-the-taliban-fighters-would-get-covid/948744/28 "2021-08-19T03:49:42Z")
Maybe they’ll get sucked into a black hole. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2021, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-a-bad-person-for-wishing-all-the-taliban-fighters-would-get-covid/948744/29 "2021-08-19T18:17:48Z")
> Am I a bad person for wishing all the Taliban fighters would get COVID? COVID is mainly dangerous to old people, and people with pre-existing conditions. Most of the Taliban fighters are young and physically fit. People in that demographic rarely develop symptoms. The few with symptoms, rarely get sick. The few who get sick, rarely need hospitalization. The few who need hospitalization, rarely die. Your attempt at vindictiveness is rather weak. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2021, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-a-bad-person-for-wishing-all-the-taliban-fighters-would-get-covid/948744/30 "2021-08-19T19:50:59Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > Pluto probably wouldn’t want them either! Relevant _Pibgorn_ strip involving a troll, a wormhole, and an alien invasion fleet: > **[Pibgorn by Brooke McEldowney for July 11, 2013 | GoComics.com](https://www.gocomics.com/pibgorn/2013/07/11)** > > July 11, 2013 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-a-bad-person-for-wishing-all-the-taliban-fighters-would-get-covid/948744.md?page=1)