Re:Iran students stage first large anti-government protests ...
by mjmsmith on Sunday February 22, 2026 @12:34PM
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"Sadly" means "it's unfortunate that it got to the state where violence is necessary".
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Re:Iran students stage first large anti-government protests ...
by martin-t on Sunday February 22, 2026 @01:25PM
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That's a good way to think about it but unfortunately, human language is so imprecise that IMO many people will leave with the conclusion that "sadly" means "using violence makes me sad and implicitly is therefore bad".
Ideally we'd live in a society where laws are a complete and consistent description of a valid (also complete and consistent) moral system. That's not the reality.
(If it's possible at all because morality operates on reality while legality operated on provability - a subset of reality which can be proven to a neutral third party.)