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by amazingamazing 17 days ago
> It's also trivially easy to not end up in involuntary servitude.

Stupid people always say nonsense like this as if no person in prison is innocent.
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grantith 17 days ago
It's also black and white thinking that carries an ego-filled, nuance-lacking, disregard for the myriad of circumstances that underpin human behavior.
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toilet 15 days ago
Read more about it in Herbert Marcuse: One-Dimensional Man
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kQq9oHeAz6wLLS 17 days ago
Stupid people also assume there are not exceptions to every rule. But you can't build your systems (or your arguments) around edge cases, because that would be ignoring the vast majority of use cases.
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amazingamazing 16 days ago
Another stupid comment. What do you think about the death penalty?

If you happen to be the one dying for no reason would you consider that just a trivial unfortunate edge case?

Educate yourself:

https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/policy-issues/policy/innocence

Every day I am happy many here are techies and not politicians.

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