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You are supposed to feel bad, because even if what he allegedly did is stupid, the sentencing is not in any way proportionate to the action. And that's assumin
by thedz 11y ago
You are supposed to feel bad, because even if what he allegedly did is stupid, the sentencing is not in any way proportionate to the action.
And that's assuming he really did what North Korea says he did. It's not the first time they've made up charges, or trumped up benign accidents into intentionally malicious acts coordinated by the US Gov.
- nv-vn 11y agoSomeone who was allegedly there when the kid did it commented on a thread yesterday. I doubt the NK government would be posting propaganda on HackerNews of all places, but hey, you never know.
- jonah 11y agoThere's mention of the arrest from an HN member who saw it first-hand in the thread from yesterday on photos from DPRK: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11287535 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11287535
- threatofrain 11y agoOn a completely tangential note, I wanted to say that in a system where we expect to probabilistically catch people, a $1000 penalty for a $1000 crime cannot rationally deter people in cases where the crime is "worth" something. You have to charge people a disproportionate penalty to discourage people. On the other hand, a society with omnipresent cameras that catches people almost 100% of the time can penalize proportionally.