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No. My original comment stated "These are issues that can be worked on in parallel."

• romwell 9y ago
  I would like to add to your statement that in the criminal justice system, intent plays a big role in determining the punishment for the crime. Given the public knowledge of police violence in the US, especially in responses to potentially violent situations, the intent of swatter in the US is very different from the intent of a prank-caller elsewhere, and should be seen differently. To paraphrase, if you approach a gate, and I open it for you with a remote, that act doesn't make me a bad person (living in a gated community, I often do that without thinking). The same act would be quite different if I knew there's an angry alligator on the loose inside, and I opened the gate to see how fast you'd run from the said alligator (moreso if you didn't even intend to enter). The problem of the free-roaming alligator is not to be neglected, but it will take time and effort to solve. In the meantime, people who open the gate won't be treated too kindly. A counterpoint would be that, as sad as the consequences are, at least more people are aware of the gator as a result - and not just the ones who have to live next to it while the landlord keeps doing nothing for decades.
  • brokenmachine 9y ago
    What an oddly specific and tangential metaphor that was...