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Re:Bezos Exerts Control of WaPo Opinion to Focus on Personal... by rayiner on Wednesday February 26, 2025 @07:55PM (#43190162)
> If someone crashes into a streetlight, is that an offense against society?

If you do it on purpose, yes.

> Sorry about your fro-yo and coffee. The places I know have long forgotten the 'riots'.

There’s tons of evidence that riots lead to long term depopulation of the neighborhoods where they happened.

> Does it not matter because they worked for the government?

Yes. This is America, not Europe: https://www.monticello.org/research-education/thomas-jeffers...

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Re:Bezos Exerts Control of WaPo Opinion to Focus on Personal... by mmooss on Thursday February 27, 2025 @02:50AM (#43192244)
> > If someone crashes into a streetlight, is that an offense against society?

> If you do it on purpose, yes.

Well I guess "an offense against society" is undefined, but that is an extreme reaction. There are matters of degree in everything, and those degrees are everything. The state prosecutes lots of crimes, from shoplifting to mass murder - to call them all "an offense against society" becomes meaningless.

> > Does it not matter because they worked for the government?

> Yes.

Killing people doesn't matter if those people work for the government. Wow.

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