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Re:Vietnamese Property tycoon Truong My Lan sentenced to dea... by bilbo0s on Thursday April 11, 2024 @11:49AM (#40003519)
And if I remember correctly, Mr Lipvig got the death penalty as well.

He was just given the, um, "choice", of taking the leap into the death penalty, or becoming the virtual prisoner of an extremely powerful "guardian angel". Who was in actuality more of a ruthless probation officer.

The message was clear, we should not be blind to the harm that indifference to corruption metes out on the larger society.

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Re:Vietnamese Property tycoon Truong My Lan sentenced to dea... by Terr_ on Thursday April 11, 2024 @03:00PM (#40005586)
No sir, that was the late Alfred Spangler, and while hanging was rather excessive, at least he wasn't put into the scorpion-pit like a mime.

But slightly-more-seriously, I wouldn't read too far into the surface of the Ankh-Morpork dictatorship and criminal-justice system as a direct moral signpost for our times, since sometimes a plot device is just a plot device.

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