Catoblepas @ Catoblepas @lemmy.blahaj.zone

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More blood for the blood god is an acceptable answer, thank you for your honesty 👍

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Yes, the punishment should escalate in accordance with the harm caused by the crime to the victims of that crime. That was never the part I was arguing against.

Imprisonment for people who are a danger to others and some form of restitution to the falsely accused would be fitting in every case, other than the one where someone was killed by the state. At that point it’s too late to do anything for the victim, and killing them isn’t going to save any money or help anyone.

It’s also a scenario that wouldn’t be possible to begin with if the government wasn’t able to execute people. It’s like trying to solve swatting by swatting swatters instead of saying hey, maybe it shouldn’t be possible to aim lethal government violence at someone to begin with and just hope it’s a gun that never misfires.

I’m responding specifically to the blanket statement that people who make false accusations should get the punishment the accused would have.

If what you meant was “we should make a special law that only applies to rape accusations” then you might want to clarify that.

Wouldn’t you want a little more than hope if you were facing this, like the state not being allowed to execute you to begin with?

What I’m trying to point out is that you made a knee jerk blanket statement (false accusers should get the exact same punishment as the person they accused would have), and refuse to back down even if it means escalating what is clearly not a capital crime into a justification for the state to execute someone.

But I’m sure the way the world and the law works is that there are super easy blanket solutions to something that just nobody has ever thought of or tried applying before 👍

There are also plenty of reasons “healthy” foods might absolutely fuck with your health, even if you’re not eating a ridiculous amount of them. For example whole wheat is a perfectly fine food to have in your diet, unless you have celiac disease and don’t realize it yet.

You still aren’t explaining why this merits the state murdering the accuser.

The justice system executes innocent people even without false accusations. Why do false accusers deserve this more than, say, judges or prosecutors who oversaw the case of an innocent person sentenced to death?

That doesn’t answer my question

Why should the penalty for falsely accusing someone of murder be death?

Slander that implicates an innocent of a crime should carry the sentence of that crime

Why should someone be sentenced to death for falsely accusing someone of murder?

You mean rape and falsely reporting a crime are two different crimes?

It’s got smells in it, of course they want to be there!

Do more democratic Senators and Representatives do anything or not? Because 6 months ago it was vote blue no matter who, now suddenly it doesn’t matter if we jettison 2 Democratic senators and 40+ Democratic reps as long as you get yours.

“Sell your home and leave your jobs and maybe it’ll work out” doesn’t fly as well as you think.

Yeah, I’m not cool with leaving my friends and family to just die because they don’t live in CA.

Republicans would absolutely love it if the most populous state that consistently sends huge numbers of Democratic representatives to DC was out of the picture. You think Democrats can’t do shit now, see what happens when you lose 40+ democrats from the House.

This happened 2 months ago and was obviously an excuse.

On 10 February 2025, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth issued a memorandum directing the U.S. Army to rename Fort Liberty back to Fort Bragg, but this time in honor of Private First Class Roland L. Bragg, a person other than the original namesake.

I believe you, I just think the average person doesn’t realize how damaging the Bible can be, especially taken literally. The use for it as a moral guide has long since been overtaken by philosophies like humanism, the same way that precise brain surgeries have eclipsed the trepanation practiced in the Neolithic.

You are not convincing my queer trans ass there is anything worth studying in there to guide people morally. I had that inflicted on me for the first two decades of my life and literally have PTSD from it.

The history can be interesting, and it’s something people accomplished in spite of what is in that book, not because of it.