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Re:From Prison to Ph.D.: The Redemption and Rejection of Mic... by JustSomeNobody on Thursday September 14, 2017 @11:03AM (#15248714)
This is not true. We live in a society with rules and laws on how to treat people. If the law says someone goes to prison for murder then "we" as a society have agreed to this. If everyone lived by different laws, we'd be in chaos.
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Re:From Prison to Ph.D.: The Redemption and Rejection of Mic... by schmidty on Wednesday September 20, 2017 @10:31AM (#15294137)
What exactly isn't true about my statement.

You are saying people are not individuals with their own preferences?

Sure you can draw mental or geographical lines around people. And then try to apply laws to them.

But at the end of the day there are still people in those lines choosing to follow, or not follow the laws in various ways. And people treating people differently even while following those laws.

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Re:From Prison to Ph.D.: The Redemption and Rejection of Mic... by VMG on Thursday September 14, 2017 @11:06AM (#15248743)
Only when these rules come into conflict. People can have different preferences, include preferences about with whom to associate or not. Allowing for that is a necessity for living in a free society.
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