Board Thread:Anime/Game Discussion/@comment-29981284-20161228210504/@comment-32973614-20190326163427

To put it simple, Jbyrdab, he did commit a crime while selling the arrows to Enya, but that crime was theft and selling illegally obtained items, a minor crime basically, and in reality you are not guilty for indirect consequences of a crime you commit, Enya and Dio gave the arrows around (yes, there's more to it like in part 4 etc. but it doesn't matter for this argument), so all the fault for that is on them, you are mixing up 2 completely separate crimes with different people at fault, and you can't do that, you can call Diavolo guilty of giving stands to his subordinates AFTER, but ONLY that.

Also... quote: "he got a majority of italy hooked on stand psychic drugs, he created multiple genocidal maniacs by giving them stands" This is a lie, nothing more and nothing less than something you just made up because:

1. Majority of Italy hooked up on drugs is just false, nothing suggests any difference from the real thing in this matter, and Italy is about average in drug deals, since there was no stated difference, it can be implied that the value in the manga be similar to the real one, so majority is waaaaaaaay too exagerated.

2.Before Diavolo: an unspecified amount of people, let's call this number "X", were addicted by drugs sold by other people, in unspecified amount "Y". After Diavolo took over: some of Y joined Passione and got rid of some others to take control of their areas, so Y decreased, the amount of X for every Y increased (so did the income of every Y) and Diavolo, as boss, got part (most) of the income (this income would be higher if drugs are produced by stands like in PHF). This can be implied, as it's how things generally go and the countrary is never stated nor hinted at; notice how X never increased.

3."multiple" is incorrect, read the part where Diavolo talks about Cioccolata, he either didn't meet others like him or got rid of them as killing everyone is bad for business, and Diavolo cared about business while he didn't care about killing or not, so it would make sense for him to get rid of anyone too dangerous unless they have an usefull stand.

4. Cioccolata killed many before getting Green Day, if Formaggio (just a random example) did not have a stand he would kill with a gun, same for everyone else in passione, noone was made a killer by Diavolo except Doppio and eventual unmentioned cases that we can't assume anythig about.

In conclusion, Diavolo took aver an already existant branch of the black market, he is definitely at fault just for being in it, as well as all being at fault for all the "extras" that were only possible after Stands were given away, but he didn't create that branch, that's a fact, but you are calling him responsible for everything.