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Re:NYC Jails Want to Ban Physical Mail, Then Privatize Scann... by notch656c on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @02:26PM (#34508793)
Someone tried to rob me at gunpoint many years ago. Pointed a gun to my head when I got a flat tire innocently trying to bike home from a bad part of town. Why was I in a bad part of town? Working in a hospital with the people helping the people in a bad part of town.

I didn't try to kill them, even though I managed to fight the upper hand off of them. When the scuffle ended all I said was "don't point things at my head."

Choose to believe me or not. Don't make presumptions about eagerness.

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Re:NYC Jails Want to Ban Physical Mail, Then Privatize Scann... by thebooktocome on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @02:33PM (#34508914)
I’m supposed to take comfort in the fact that you’re more violent in hypothetical situations?

The death penalty will always be executed with a certain false positive rate. Willing it as a form of punishment necessarily entails willing the death of innocent people, who crucially can’t be brought back in the event that the state realizes it was mistaken.

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Re:NYC Jails Want to Ban Physical Mail, Then Privatize Scann... by notch656c on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @02:36PM (#34508970)
You know the process for executing someone is very long, expensive road. Eager is the worst possible description of the death penalty.

There are plenty of criticisms for the death penalty but now you're changing the goalposts as you realize your description written in a science fiction feel good reality was a bad fit.

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Re:NYC Jails Want to Ban Physical Mail, Then Privatize Scann... by thebooktocome on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @03:00PM (#34509381)
> you’re changing the goalposts

Post one: The death penalty is always wrong because it can be handed out in error and cannot be revoked.

Post two: The death penalty is always wrong because it can be handed out in error and cannot be revoked.

No goalposts have changed in the making of this thread.

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Re:NYC Jails Want to Ban Physical Mail, Then Privatize Scann... by notch656c on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @03:30PM (#34509839)
I think the edit timer hasn't timed out. May want to go back and at least make it look like that's what your "post one" said.
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