Unpopular Opinion
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Rules:
1. NO POLITICS
Politics is everywhere. Let's make this about [general] and [lemmy] - specific topics, and keep politics out of it.
2. Be civil.
Disagreements happen, but that doesn’t provide the right to personally attack others. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Please also refrain from gatekeeping others' opinions.
3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.
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4. Shitposts and memes are allowed but...
Only until they prove to be a problem. They can and will be removed at moderator discretion.
5. No trolling.
This shouldn't need an explanation. If your post or comment is made just to get a rise with no real value, it will be removed. You do this too often, you will get a vacation to touch grass, away from this community for 1 or more days. Repeat offenses will result in a perma-ban.
6. Defend your opinion
This is a bit of a mix of rules 4 and 5 to help foster higher quality posts. You are expected to defend your unpopular opinion in the post body. We don't expect a whole manifesto (please, no manifestos), but you should at least provide some details as to why you hold the position you do.
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If you kill two or more you are.
An executioner is not a murderer if the condemned is guilty.
That's literally what it means, actually.
You don't get to randomly redefine words because you don't like what they mean for whatever reason.
No such thing.
Depends. There were plenty of interpersonal killings of Jews during the early stages of the Holocaust that would easily count as murder. The state-sanctioned death camps were not murders, even if it's also true that murders took place within the camps.
Of course not. Being killed is not being murdered. There are Ukrainians and Palestinians being both killed and murdered right now, but no western understanding of the word "murder" can accurately be applied to an active war front.
How poor is your reading comprehension to come to that conclusion and have you considered remedial courses at a community college? It's never too late.
Who said anything about murdering him? The state cannot commit murder. There's an argument to be made that Dorsey did not deserve the death penalty (I don't think he did), but this is a dangerously reductive view.
But last time I talked to you you were misconstrueing my argument about society's responsibility to preserve its safety, so I suppose you are too.
My guy if you want to hash it out in that thread again, go there, but to recap:
An untrained, unfenced pit bull is a massive threat to both safety and property. The OP of that thread expressed legitimate concerns w/r/t both and was looking for advice on how to stop it. I gave two options, with emphasis that the most harm-reductive one be taken first. What exactly was your advice, again? That the OP spend several thousand dollars reinforcing their yard's fencing to keep their neighbor's pit out?
You two just enjoy arguing 🙂
How am I hypocritical?
That's a really bad line of reasoning.
How? Murder is interpersonal, premeditated manslaughter. There's no interpersonal relationship between the state and an hypothetical victim. The state can kill unjustly (which I believe applies to Dorsey), but it cannot be guilty of murder.