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Re:The Strange Story of Dagobert, the “DuckTales” Bandit by josefx on Friday May 21, 2021 @04:06AM (#27231582)
It is closer to old testament style punishment in a country that pretends to be largely christian. Do they even know about that Jesus guy and the books written about him (new testament)?

The amount of corruption, sheriffs getting to pocket the money for prison food, judges getting kickbacks for convictions, guaranteed prison quotas, exceptions from slavery laws, etc. don't help either.

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Re:The Strange Story of Dagobert, the “DuckTales” Bandit by TeMPOraL on Friday May 21, 2021 @05:31AM (#27232015)
It's way past Old Testament, and closer to the scary stories Israelites were told about what their neighboring nations are doing. Laws given/described in Old Testament were harsh, but there was a sense of proportionality in them.
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Re:The Strange Story of Dagobert, the “DuckTales” Bandit by paulryanrogers on Friday May 21, 2021 @08:44AM (#27233300)
Take care not to romanticize the Old Testament or its laws. Plenty of genocide and wives-of-jealous-husbands-must-drink-dusty-water misogyny in there.

IME the excuses made for it and cherry picking from it have only reinforced bad habits. Stuff like appeal to authority, survivorship bias, and trusting intuition over data.

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