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Guns and bombs threaten the state monopoly on power, violence and punishment. Rapes not so much. The body of law (and the sentences it produces) move in a dir
by Radim 13y ago
Guns and bombs threaten the state monopoly on power, violence and punishment.
Rapes not so much.
The body of law (and the sentences it produces) move in a direction that may meander and have inertia, but is ultimately predictable.
- dhimes 13y agoGuns and bombs threaten the state monopoly on power, violence and punishment And this is a good thing as long as citizens have control of the state. In fact, it's one of the chief functions of the state. It's when citizens get lazy and allow themselves to be manipulated that this goes bad. But here there's another irony. The state is crying about a personnel shortage in STEM, yet simultaneously threatening ridiculous punishment for the very same characteristics that lead to excellence in STEM. The irony is sickening.