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You don't have to go through the courts to be guilty of something
by oaththrowaway 2y ago
You don't have to go through the courts to be guilty of something
- AnimalMuppet 2y ago[flagged]
- giraffe_lady 2y ago> If you haven't been proven guilty, you are presumed innocent. That's a sensible procedural rule for courts to follow, but I'm not a court. I have no legal or moral responsibility to presume someone is innocent. I exercise my own judgement on the matter. I agree we don't want vigilante executions in nyc to become more normal than they already are. But don't get it twisted and think that means we are obligated to believe, or act as if we believe, that someone is innocent.
- ithkuil 2y agoYou're free to privately judge anyone anyway you want. As long as you don't impede their freedom to live their own life. We have laws that prevent you from harming other people. Not only you cannot murder them but there are also laws around stalking, defamation etc. Nobody is forcing us to like the people who we think are terrible human beings.
- wahnfrieden 2y agoThe point is that we do not have laws that prevent the CEO from harming many people - instead the legal frameworks supported his deadly actions
- ithkuil 2y agoPerhaps the problem is the fact that healthcare is privatized in the first place?
- wahnfrieden 2y agoYes or controlled through ultimately undemocratic powers and without free associative non coercive means (people are able to coordinate on work and employ leadership without requiring a hierarchy of controllers). We all pay our time and labor into these services but it’s proxied through money and abstracted away
- bigbacaloa 2y ago[dead]
- oneeyedpigeon 2y ago[flagged]