Humblebrag.

I’m sorry your girlfriends parents are dicks, but I think you know where you actually stand.

To people’s credit for intellectual honesty, you also hear “asteroid impact now plz”.

It’s more of a slang word, but it’s the act of arbitrarily not including certain people in a group, and including yourself in that group, in order to make yourself feel special or better emotionally. In the Anglosphere at least, activists do that a lot. They do it to non-activists, and to each other even more.

Sorry, I may have inserted my own “pet issue” here. Your story just sounds like a lack of empathy.

Ah, so capitalism = markets.

There’s also the classical Marxist definition which includes many non-market systems and doesn’t include some proposed market systems, and the “capitalism is when the government doesn’t do stuff” definition. Probably others too, so I thought I’d ask for clarification.

Sure… I’m asking whether you think there’s a big difference in people who would say “kill the fucker” and people who would actually stand behind advocating for the death penalty for him, irl, if needed.

Well, we’re in a thread talking to a convicted pedophile, so I’ll refrain from judging morally. TBH I’ve found the more factual I am on the internet the better it goes.

There’s a difference between saying it and genuinely believing it, yes. Although, most people aren’t actually going to decide if they’re serious until they have to, because ethical analysis of the criminal justice system isn’t a typical interest. It’s more of a spectrum of seriousness, really.

and don’t the US serve convictions of like 3 consecutive life sentences so that it’d just a very surreal way of making sure they stay in jail?

Yes, that is a thing. Legal fictions are funny.

Look, I’m sorry you got beat up, and I’m sorry you have all these health conditions. Since you actually seem to be listening, I’m also sorry for the downvotes.

Unfortunately, shit is just going to be difficult for you now. It’s part of having a disability, and if you hurt someone else knowingly or unknowingly that gets even worse. I hope you can get your life back together one day.

I’m not arguing against anything you said.

Oh, okay. Brought up out of the blue like that it seemed like you were suggesting I was in the picture. I actually tried to reach out as non-judgmentally as possible there, given the context.

There was a text on it since like the 1600’s-1700’s, though it talked about why it’s not wise to hang burglars.

Ah yes, I actually have seen that passage, although I can’t find it now. Punishing theft with death was actually particular to Germanic cultures IIRC. Even most ancient people thought that was stupidly harsh.

Hmm. I wonder if this could be an argument against life sentences, too, since they’re similarly hard to add on to.

Oh I’m sure you’re right, but are you saying that in a “people think ‘he should’ve died’ in a rhetorical way” or a “people actually think there should be the death penalty enacted for what he did”. I believe more the former and plenty the latter, but I wouldn’t say “most” for the latter.

I deliberately didn’t specify, since it would have involved a digression, but I’d guess the same. People talk mad shit on the internet.

You’re arguing against a position I didn’t actually take. I pretty much just intended a reality check for OP there. People hate sex offenders and fear schizophrenics.

Also, you’re kinda asserting you know what everyone else thinks.

I’d put money on someone thinking that. More likely than not someone will even post it. Sure, it is a guess though.

I mean, the first reply included “it’d be better to stop breathing”.

I have bad teeth. There was no expectation that men have to do anything to look good growing up, so I never worried about it, and my parents never made me (which is fine). Now I just can’t even begin to afford it.

For certain backends, especially the kind that generates static pages, functional code like Haskell works well, and brings a different kind of “cleanness”.

Just in case you hadn’t considered it.

It’s true, that doesn’t prove anything exactly. Your position is intellectually self-consistent. It’s more that I suspect you’d re-asses aliveness as a good basis for ethics with that source of information.

Okay, I’ll revise that to “I bet if you hung out with other people in unbearable suffering for long enough, you’d change your mind”. With “long enough” being anything from days to decades depending on your own compassion:conviction ratio.

Look, if you did a sex offence you persecuted someone else. You are not persecuted because of that, and thinking you are might just be the schizo.

Other posters here are going to think you should die, or even die in a nasty way, and in most times and places that’s what would have happened. Chemical castration is a good deal by that standard.

I wish there was a third option to knock down things that aren’t actually controversial. In threads like this an upvote and a downvote are both an upvote.

I feel like you’ve mixed a very general problem with a very specific pair of problems, here.

Anywhere with a major Jewish or Muslim population is going to struggle with that one.

I feel like most people do get this, but aren’t very good at defining how exactly rationality breaks down and where.

Schizophrenia, autism and a history of sex offences? No, you should definitely have to follow certain rules.

I bet you’d change your mind if you were personally in enough pain.

Aiming to be politically 100% pure and judging those who can’t be as pure boils down to chasing political activism cookies/elo. The only useful thing is doing one’s best.

It’s gatekeeping. As far as I can tell, the stated goals are never the actual point in practice. Which sucks, because there’s a lot of important issues.

How are you defining capitalism?