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The AI of Sauron. But seriously, when most people see that their head of state has no moral standards whatsoever, they'll follow and drop their own standard ev

by akomtu 9mo ago

The AI of Sauron. But seriously, when most people see that their head of state has no moral standards whatsoever, they'll follow and drop their own standard even lower. It would be a similar situation if a bishop was openly a drunkard or if an army sergeant was a lazy drug addict.

gullies 9mo ago
AI of Sauron LMFAO
netsharc 9mo ago
Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis said this in 1928: > Decency, security and liberty alike demand that government officials shall be subjected to the same rules of conduct that are commands to the citizen. In a government of laws, existence of the government will be imperiled if it fails to observe the law scrupulously. Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill it teaches the whole people by example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. To declare that in the administration of the criminal law the end justifies the means - to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure the conviction of a private criminal - would bring terrible retributions. https://law.jrank.org/pages/11566/Opinion-U-S-Supreme-Court-June-13-1966-IV.html https://law.jrank.org/pages/11566/Opinion-U-S-Supreme-Court-... Timothy McVeigh used the beginning of this quote as a statement before his conviction, FWIW.. https://archive.is/xineB https://archive.is/xineB
iszomer 9mo ago
You can also not take offense to it either and ignore the "slopaganda". The fact that it triggered you shows that it's "working".
- QuadmasterXLII 9mo ago
  Did you notice any evidence of triggering in the person you are replying to's post? I didn't, but perhaps you are some kind of triggering-detection savant beyond my understanding
  - iszomer 9mo ago
    > ..when most people see that their head of state has no moral standards whatsoever, I’m not a trigger-detecting savant. I just don’t share your or GP’s assumptions about “most people”. There isn’t a single standard -- people here don’t all think alike.

by akomtu 9mo ago

gullies 9mo ago

AI of Sauron LMFAO

netsharc 9mo ago

Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis said this in 1928: > Decency, security and liberty alike demand that government officials shall be subjected to the same rules of conduct that are commands to the citizen. In a government of laws, existence of the government will be imperiled if it fails to observe the law scrupulously. Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill it teaches the whole people by example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. To declare that in the administration of the criminal law the end justifies the means - to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure the conviction of a private criminal - would bring terrible retributions. https://law.jrank.org/pages/11566/Opinion-U-S-Supreme-Court-June-13-1966-IV.html https://law.jrank.org/pages/11566/Opinion-U-S-Supreme-Court-... Timothy McVeigh used the beginning of this quote as a statement before his conviction, FWIW.. https://archive.is/xineB https://archive.is/xineB

iszomer 9mo ago

You can also not take offense to it either and ignore the "slopaganda". The fact that it triggered you shows that it's "working".

QuadmasterXLII 9mo ago
Did you notice any evidence of triggering in the person you are replying to's post? I didn't, but perhaps you are some kind of triggering-detection savant beyond my understanding
- iszomer 9mo ago
  > ..when most people see that their head of state has no moral standards whatsoever, I’m not a trigger-detecting savant. I just don’t share your or GP’s assumptions about “most people”. There isn’t a single standard -- people here don’t all think alike.