• jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de
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        3 months ago

        Unlike Norwegians that still apply the rule of law for terrorists.

        I propose classifying Russians and Americans as Homo Sapiens Venator Scholae by referencing one of their distinguishing behaviours.

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      3 months ago

      Maybe, but I think a lot of humans have a bloodthirsty taste for vengeance when they hear about someone committing an atrocity. In fact, I think the more difficult position is to be able to put that very common need for vengeance that so many people have aside because it isn’t ethical.

      I personally have not had an issue with this, but I have said to more than one person that (for example) hoping a rapist will get raped in prison doesn’t make any sense from an ethical standpoint and getting them to understand that.