NeoNachtwaechter @ NeoNachtwaechter @lemmy.world

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I assume that's probably not the case

Go there. Test it out. Troll them. Record them. Have fun!

this happens a few times a decade and it is one of the more humiliating experiences

No. Why do you think so?

Seems it was culture in your example. Culture may give new meanings to words. You don't know one, you can look it up. But if you don't know five words at once, you are lost.

You are right, it needs some kind of common understanding about what is hurtful. Or a way of resolving such conflicts.

I think the lack of such a common understanding is very new (we live in an overly individualistic time) and didn't exist at that time when he said that.

A philosopher has told a rule that goes like this:

You are free to say and do whatever you want, unless it would hurt your fellow humans.

Have a look at the map here, and also at the satellite view. Zoom in: 37,0593067, 15,2976834

It is a >2000 year old town, still alive and inhabited (mostly by tourists nowadays). People had no air condition back then.

The buildings are made of natural stone. The walls are as heavy as possible. The streets are as narrow as possible (some can be used with a car, some cannot).

I have been there on vacation for two weeks and the effect of this way of building a city is huge! The sun barely reaches the ground in these narrow streets. The heavy walls do not heat up much in the lower floors. They keep some the ground's coolness - and today, some of the air condition's coolness as well, but the local people told me that they use their air condition only in the 3-4 hottest month's of the year.

Oh yes, there is a right to free speech.

The problem in that country is that only the rich have rights.

people have told me that snoring at that age is not normal and a sign of sleep apnea.

They're just jealous. They know perfectly well that snoring indicates a superior intellect.

German courts aren't special.

It's actually British courts who are special. And unfortunately Britain has exported their way into all their colonies.

In the British view of the world, it is generally assumed that everybody is lying all the time, even in court. All evidence and all words of witnesses are assumed to belong to one of the parties = lying in their favor (If you don't like the term "lying" here, you can replace it by "performing a good show").

In Germany, witnesses belong to nobody (except if they are are involved in the case, or if they are spouse/relatives to one of the people who are involved etc.) and therefore it is generally assumed that they are free to tell the truth.

Well, that's a continent of 57 different countries.

many police programs incentivize or measure an officers efficiency based on the number of arrests or tickets they produce.

I call that very unethical.

Try harder :) and read the 'pessimists' part, too.

Imagine a time when you need it (for example, your old language isn't spoken anymore where you live)

This site

Some random lawyer.

like German police can and will use your words against you in court.

Again: police records and collects stuff. They do not argue in court.

What the accused has told the police will be usable by all sides equally in court.

Police have to collect proof, whether it works for or against a suspect. Other suspects are possible, too. That follows directly from the general presumption of innocence. Only the judge can end that presumption, with his verdict.

Btw police don't argue in court.

(Germany here)

This is the way.

You are right LOL: I do not approve. But somehow I like the lazy approach :)

Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law. Never for you.

What shitty country is that?