• surewhynotlem@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Well, that’s another very interesting debate. Are the laws of a country what is written on the paper, or how things actually get enforced? One could say that America’s laws are (mostly) not racist, but how it gets enforced absolutely is, isn’t it?

    If throwing a rock gets you shot, and society allows that to happen regularly, then that is the punishment for that crime. You can dislike it, and that society can dislike it, but it is what it is. Isn’t it?

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      10 months ago

      The punishment for that crime is the one in the law on a technical level. This makes mob justice a crime, and people who murder others for no reason criminals. /:

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        10 months ago

        The proposed punishment is the one written in law. But if no one ever receives that punishment, then that’s not the punishment, is it?