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Re:Canadian Comedian Fined $42,000 for Telling a Joke by koenigdavidmj on Friday August 19, 2016 @12:14PM (#12321095)
It was a tasteless joke. And a governments committing disproportionate violence over it is overkill.

(To save us the argument, if it's violence when I do it, it's violence when the government does it too. If I take your money, lock you up in a cage, or kill you, these are all violent.)

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Re:Canadian Comedian Fined $42,000 for Telling a Joke by derefr on Friday August 19, 2016 @12:29PM (#12321241)
Why is taking money violent? We don't have debtors prisons in the developed world; people who are fined for something and can't pay, just don't pay. Fines, like (most) taxes, are meant to be disincentives, not punishments.
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Re:Canadian Comedian Fined $42,000 for Telling a Joke by function_seven on Friday August 19, 2016 @12:49PM (#12321424)
Just not paying a fine is not an option for most of us. If you don't pay the fine (that you have the means to pay) and take steps to prevent the government from collecting, then the next step is jail.
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Re:Canadian Comedian Fined $42,000 for Telling a Joke by TazeTSchnitzel on Friday August 19, 2016 @12:29PM (#12321239)
How is the “comedian”'s repeated public humiliation of a specific disabled kid less violent than him being fined $42k?
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