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The french revolution was thieves murdering so they can steal. It does not justify what they did. They could have gotten rid of the crown and implemented a more
by _8j50 4y ago
The french revolution was thieves murdering so they can steal. It does not justify what they did. They could have gotten rid of the crown and implemented a more fair system without bloodshed.
It doesn't matter what people want or care about or if they are literally starving. That does not justify theft. I am not against taxation, I am all for raising taxes and making the rich pay their fair share. What I abhorr and what revolts me is this idea that you can just take their money because you need it more. It is theirs. Period. End of story. Unless they broke the law to gain it.
If the law was unfair that allowed them to gain wealth? change it. But you can't retroacrively take someone else's property or wealth because now it is considered unfairly gained. At the most fundamental and basic level that would be unfair and unjust. A person can only be punished if they broke the rules at the time of the act.
The french revolution was uncivilized barbaric murderous rampage. If you agree with thay then you have already earned your povery and starvation. In no understanding of justice is stealing justified because someone has too much wealth.
- TheCoelacanth 4y agoThe French Revolution was an uncivilized murderous rampage against uncivilized barbaric murdering thieves. The rulers got what they deserved; it's only unfortunate that many innocent people were caught up in it too.
- _8j50 4y agoYou should elaborate on how they deserved to have not just the rich people but their whole families decapitated in public. I comment about public execution of child rapists and i get downvoted here but sure monarchs deserved it. In order to justifyably kill someone they must have taken a direct role in taking someone's life and that act must have been unlawful and their convinction must be after due process and after allowing them to defend themselves and confront their accuser. Chopping off the heads of rich people because they got rich off of your starvarion like that is not to different than mass shooters and serial killers who kill because they too felt wronged and they too felt the rule of law and the process of justice was beneath them and they too granted themselves authority to be judges and executioners.
- pjc50 4y ago"They have learnt nothing, and forgotten nothing" -- Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand on the subject of Hacker News