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Re:Inky the octopus breaks out of New Zealand aquarium by Falling3 on Wednesday April 13, 2016 @05:26PM (#11492361)
Why would we care if someone accepts the costs or not? I find our justice system to be incredibly flawed, but ultimately we jail people because we (as a society) don't want the action they committed to take place. The mentality you seem to be espousing seems to ignore that for... reasons?

So if we're willing to say a specific action is worth jailing someone for the rest of their life, why shouldn't we say "This action is not okay and we're going to do our best to prevent it"?

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Re:Inky the octopus breaks out of New Zealand aquarium by NhanH on Thursday April 14, 2016 @01:14AM (#11494437)
What you're describing is an extended version of the Problem of Evil. Also related is the moral and limitation of government itself (human chose to give up certain liberty for government).

Basically, free will (and the physical manifestation of it: liberty) is argued to be more important than the lack of evil. And you can't have realistic free will and liberty without accepting that bad things will happen.

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Re:Inky the octopus breaks out of New Zealand aquarium by Falling3 on Thursday April 14, 2016 @01:54AM (#11494572)
No. I'm merely pointing out the absurdity of saying describing something as "okay" when it's anything but. The word has become meaningless in this conversation.
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Re:Inky the octopus breaks out of New Zealand aquarium by kristopolous on Wednesday April 13, 2016 @09:53PM (#11493803)
This is a philosophical difference. I think adults should be at liberty to shoot themselves in the foot.
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