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A comment on The Banana Trick and Other Acts of Self-Checkout Thievery (2018). Parent comment

Re:The Banana Trick and Other Acts of Self-Checkout Thievery... by RHSeeger on Saturday July 27, 2019 @11:32PM (#20545703)
I think that phrase is used a little more freely than it should be. It is wrong to imprison people against their will; yet we do it because those people do/will do wrong things. Two wrongs don't make a right in that case either, but we feel the second wrong is justified because of the first.
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Re:The Banana Trick and Other Acts of Self-Checkout Thievery... by tjoff on Sunday July 28, 2019 @03:03AM (#20546217)
It's not wrong to imprison people against their will. It's part of the societal contract.

Not imprisoning someone when you should is, however, wrong.

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Re:The Banana Trick and Other Acts of Self-Checkout Thievery... by benjaminbrodie on Sunday July 28, 2019 @10:22AM (#20547686)
if, instead of saying "is, however, wrong" you say "is wrong, however" you can save a comma. Just some LFP offered in a kindly spirit.
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