Did you see what that was a response to? Someone who told me to go fuck myself. Were they trying to be a dick? You called me a motherfucker, were you trying to be a dick?

I wrote it once. I saw a thread that looked more relevant for what I was saying, I copied it over.

Corrupt politicians / Bankers who cause an economic crash / Someone who hosts a revenge porn website should all get short sentences, agree or disagree?

Why though? It’s not set in stone that those are what should be considered. Why not focus much more on rehabilitation?

But part of the problem is that everyone thinks they have righteous anger. Pro life people who are outraged when abortions happen think they are morally justified in that. After all, in their eyes a baby was just murdered. Calling for tough sentences for the crimes that are particularly abhorrent to you is what every…

OK, what factors do you think should be considered in determining jail time? How long do you think is appropriate for this case? Do you think if we could prove that he was somehow completely rehabilitated and would never commit a crime again, that he should be released, even if it’s before 12 years are up? Do you…

Terrible, but should the desire for retribution even factor into sentencing?

I posted it somewhere, and then I saw somewhere else it was more relevant.

Don’t want to dismiss you or anything, it does seem light. But it’s interesting how everyone is always against harsh prison sentences and the prison industrial complex and all that, but anytime a crime gets reported on here everyone is “The sentence is too light!” “I don’t support the death penalty but for this I’ll…

Don’t want to dismiss you or anything, it does seem light. But it’s interesting how everyone is always against harsh prison sentences and the prison industrial complex and all that, but anytime a crime gets reported on here everyone is “The sentence is too light!” “I don’t support the death penalty but for this I’ll…

Kind of related. My friend once saw a 14 year old friend of his sister pretending to be 21 on Tinder. Apparently he told on her to her parents, which seemed reasonable.

But he has a point about modern journalism doesn’t he? It’s often writers desperately trying to provoke some outrage from whoever misspoke that day. I mean, you read Jezebel right?

They suck because why? They were accused of a terrible thing that definitely didn’t happen?

Suspended sentence means that as long as she isn’t in trouble for 2 years she won’t be going to prison. I’m not a fan of this law, but given that it exists, this sentence at least seems reasonable.

This is water flavored Jello. Everyone, please stop pretending it isn’t.

As long as you agree that women in all other sports including tennis deserve to be paid less. Gotta be consistent.

The men have high earning careers at football clubs, which the women don’t have. There is a cost to playing in national games for the men, and not the women, because more nationals mean less club games. Therefore the men are paid “compensation” for that lost income.

Well, seeing as Asians are about the most under represented group in TV and Hollywood, that would make a welcome change

Except the chief prosecutor himself says that most of the people involved were migrants and refugees who arrived in 2015. Trying to obfuscate that by saying “these particular countries didn’t have many identified criminals” is purposefully misleading. The anti migrant sentiment isn’t racist because only 3 syrians or…

And public opinion in Germany is a lot softer to Syrians. But they only make up a small percentage of migrant arrivals in Germany. Saying “look, only 3 iraqis or syrians! They are actually a nice group of people” seems fine, but the converse is “Most of the rest are morrocans and other recent immigrants, those groups…