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TheSlinja posted...

picture this though you are as you are now,
someone in the world (not you) gets the death note and starts offing people, but swear they will only use it for good trust me guys for real
who the fuck is okay with that

That's an issue of trust, not function. Let's also note that he is revealed after known criminals are killed by him. He's a vigilante, it's like the people who mourned the death of a mob boss because his illegal actions did stop other criminals.

TheSlinja posted...

also for being so (rightly) critical of the judicial system you seem just as eager to have someone kill off people branded as criminals through it as though it lets guilty people go free but simultaneously is always right about who is guilty?

You are always going to get innocents who slip through the net regardless of what we do, I feel we are too fearful of the inevitable to do the necessary. I'm fine with more innocents getting wrongly punished to ensure criminals are definitely punished.

As it stands, the law is so weak at catching actual criminals that moral actions are criminalised to spread the catch net wide enough to catch the criminals who slide out on vagueries.

People go to prison for self-defense not because we think their actions aren't reasonable, but because being loose about self-defense lets immoral people pretend they were acting defending themselves and get away with it. We arrest people falsely in that regard but we let it go because it's categorised as a bad for convenience. If we're willing to arrest people for protecting themselves, why not be willing to stretch the rules to make sure criminals don't walk away in other ways?
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Doctor Foxx posted...
The demonizing of soy has a lot to do with xenophobic ideas.