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dang, he was making a perfectly civil and substantive point (one I'll admit to agreeing with): that police who abuse their powers should be executed. Like it o
by wtbob 10y ago
dang, he was making a perfectly civil and substantive point (one I'll admit to agreeing with): that police who abuse their powers should be executed.
Like it or not, the death penalty is perfectly within the norms of the civilised world; it's popular even where not allowed.
In this case, the only thing incompatible with civil, substantive discussion was … you.
- SamReidHughes 10y agoIt sure was substantive! I'd never thought of the idea of using the death penalty as a punishment for crimes before reading it. And I certainly didn't know what his opinion was on whether a specific crime deserved death, and I was very delighted to hear it, and then imagine the punishment happen. It made me feel good.
- dang 10y agoSorry, but it doesn't count as civil and substantive in my book. It seems like just another form of venting, which we can do without here. On HN, over-the-top rhetoric isn't in anybody's interest. It refutes itself and trivializes the subject.