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> @downvoters, do you have any arguments to add? Not a downvoter, but the idea of proportionality is core to liberal democracies. It’s why only illiberal state
by kashunstva 2y ago
> @downvoters, do you have any arguments to add?
Not a downvoter, but the idea of proportionality is core to liberal democracies. It’s why only illiberal states would cut off the hands of a petty thief, or execute drug offenders, and so forth. Wrecking a person’s life over frog embryos, irrespective of her imprudence or her boss’s carelessness is a disproportionate response. That’s my argument. It smacks of the sort of arbitrary cruelty and pettiness that runs through the very core of this administration.
- FirmwareBurner 2y ago> is a disproportionate response Sure, but when border agents are legally allowed to act as judges, juries and executioners on the spot, why is it surprising this happens? They see hundreds or thousands of plane travelers pass by them per day maybe, they don't have time to assess each individual case by case. They're legally allowed to cut before measuring when they encounter someone who broke a law. They don't care that person didn't know the law. This has nothing to do with the orange man, but with the powers border agents have at their discursion which inevitably results in both false positives and false negatives on a daily basis.