Comment by mountainriver
3 months ago
I got permanently banned from Reddit for participating in a thread debating the death penalty. In which I wrote one comment suggesting we shouldn’t waste a bunch of court costs on mass shooters who are blatantly guilty.
That was considered “instigating violence” lol
Depending on how you wrote or worded it, that IS instigating violence.
"We should just execute them and save money" is instigating violence.
If you aren't willing to spend resources because it's "obvious" to you, you do not care about Justice.
Cops always think they got the right guy, and they are regularly blatantly wrong, including for people on death row.
Talking about procedures and sentencing for a heinous crime isn't instigating violence lol. Is sending people to prison instigating violence? I really expected more from the HN crowd but this place has obviously deteriorated
Sending innocent people to prison would absolutely be a horrible form of violence against those people.
That's why we have trials, with independent judges, juries and rules.
Remember when the Boston marathon bombing happened, and Reddit users identified dozens of different people as obviously, and definitely, the bombers (https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/reddit-regre...)? Remember when the LAPD opened fire on multiple random civilians who they thought might be Christopher Dorner (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Dorner_shootings_a...) remember when the DC sniper was active and the tip line received thousands of calls from people claiming to have 100% certainty that they saw the sniper, then describe people of conflicting races, ages and physical descriptions (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D.C._sniper_attacks)
We have trials so that we make sure we put the bad guys in prison, not random innocent people who were misidentified. They're for the benefit of everyone else, not for the criminal.
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> To be fair, that's an objectively degenerate suggestio
You should be a Reddit mod lol
This is an "objectively sane" comment that got a lot of upvotes actually
Upvotes on Reddit are not indicative of sanity.
Any suggestion to remove due process or the rule of law from governance is objectively degenerate and retrogressive.
No matter who you are, you do not want to live in that world.