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Worse... how? Shouldn't it depend on context a LOT? Like a mass murderer getting off on a technicality for example. Considering that a lot of innocent people a
by boxed 2y ago
Worse... how? Shouldn't it depend on context a LOT? Like a mass murderer getting off on a technicality for example.
Considering that a lot of innocent people are murdered by the state via jury and trial in the US the distinction isn't very clear imo.
- InitialLastName 2y ago> Considering that a lot of innocent people are murdered by the state via jury and trial in the US the distinction isn't very clear imo. ~211 people were killed via trial sentence in the US in the last 10 years [0]. Presumably some of them weren't innocent. In the same time period (conservatively) 8500 were killed by law enforcement outside of the legal process [1]. Both are problematic, but calling <20 people/year (out of a third of a billion people) "a lot" is missing the forest for the tiny sprig of moss. [0] https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/database/executions?year=2024&year=2023&year=2022&year=2021&year=2020&year=2019&year=2018&year=2016&year=2017&year=2015 https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/database/executions?year=2024&y... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_killings_by_law_enforcement_officers_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_killings_by_law_enfor...
- boxed 2y agoThe Doctor Who meme here applies. Is 5 a lot? Depends. Potatoes? No. Murder? Yes.