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Re:What it's like to be cancelled by avs733 on Monday June 21, 2021 @05:50PM (#27584985)
How far do you want to take this argument?

Warning people about someone's creepy behavior isn't a punishment, it's a warning that they might violate my moral code and I should probably avoid them. Is me avoiding them punishment? Should I then be punished? not punished?

Define punishment...

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Re:What it's like to be cancelled by lelanthran on Monday June 21, 2021 @07:22PM (#27585847)
> Warning people about someone's creepy behavior isn't a punishment,

Until someone goes around warning other people that they think that you act creepy around children?

How do you define creepy? It's completely subjective. That's why the courts are objective.

Making the argument for mobbing and witch-hunts almost never ends well.

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Re:What it's like to be cancelled by avs733 on Monday June 21, 2021 @11:39PM (#27587719)
it's telling that you think courts are objective...
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Re:What it's like to be cancelled by lelanthran on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @12:06AM (#27587882)
> it's telling that you think courts are objective...

So, if you think that the court system, with it's experts, and centuries of experience, with fallbacks and checks and balances, with emphasis on applying the law with regard to precedent and societal input, with appeals and formal processes that must be followed ... is unable to be objective, what makes you think that random people with an actual specified bias is more objective?

I dunno about you, but I'll take my chances in court over someone who literally shouts their bias to the world any day.

All the arguments for mob justice that you are attempting to make are the same arguments the KKK made for their justice.

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Re:What it's like to be cancelled by Jcowell on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @04:29AM (#27602172)
There’s a difference between able to be objective and being objective. Anyone who believe that’s American Courts, or rather, courts are objective is someone I hope has a really good lawyer if they ever go to court.
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Re:What it's like to be cancelled by visarga on Friday June 25, 2021 @12:58AM (#27627287)
Are you aligning yourself here to the "master's tools will never dismantle the master's house" and proposing we distrust the systems in our society?
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