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Wow, thanks. What a constructive and nuanced response.

And then, when it becomes clear that their issues are hot air and that they've done untold damage while everyone was distracted, they pile all of the responsibility onto the outgoing leader and say the new one will be different (again).

I literally said that I didn't think that, you dummy.

It's not a question of the act and it's consequences, it's a question of the intended act and it's intended consequences. You seem to have lost your edge on the ethical and philosophical considerations that are massive in determining how we are suppose to condemn certain behaviour, and your defence of this mechanism of the legal system comes off as infantile, reductionist and, ultimately, quite flaccid.

I lost my mother within the last year in an instance where faster ambulance response might have saved her, but I can recognise that not being able to explain yourself in court is a far wider problem than just me.

There's a little something called scientific objectivity that separates some of those things from others. Courts are supposed to be scientific.

The fact that you think you're right doesn't mean you should be able to block emergency responders, but putting an outright ban of explaining the defendant's reasoning is stupid and is not in any way the necessary response. It's not one or the other and I'd argue it's antithetical to the concept of fair trial. Courts are supposed to have nuanced reasoning and the judge does when deciding upon a punishment.

If people don't protest climate crisis we won't have a society for very long...

Which is, in itself, an admission that the law is fundamentally intended to be ignorant or indifferent of morality in most instances, and that only high-prorile charges are afforded the consideration of moral judgement.

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I think the problem is 'why can this teacher film porn in a room used by children soon after and soon before?', and I don't think that's a bad question. I'm not sure what exactly she was doing, but the cleaners at my school didn't wipe down the tabletops half the time.

I'm all for sex work and I know people who have done sex work, but filming stuff like that in an actual classroom is surely just asking for trouble.

I remember my ex-girlfriend getting into drugs when we kind of split apart (cause of my mental health deteriorating at the time). I met her at a house party (drink only) the next year and she was going on about how she got so into drugs at one point that she was doing them pretty much every night and waking up in random strangers' houses without remembering how she'd gotten there. Fuck that. I imagine she was always quite eager to leave after waking up.

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