DominatorX1@thelemmy.club to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 2 days agoSay what you will about totalitarian dictators, at least they’re human.message-squaremessage-square32fedilinkarrow-up15arrow-down189
arrow-up1-84arrow-down1message-squareSay what you will about totalitarian dictators, at least they’re human.DominatorX1@thelemmy.club to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 2 days agomessage-square32fedilink
minus-squareMotoAsh@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 days agoSo are many of the “demons” of many religions. A person with mental disorders is still a human. That doesn’t make them or their actions any less reprehensible as far as the ones who end up being called such things.
minus-squareDominatorX1@thelemmy.clubOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down10·edit-21 day agoI’m drawing a distinction between a human and a system of laws. An important difference is that a system of laws is dumb, blind, gameable and breakable. A human, much less so.
minus-squareMotoAsh@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-21 day agolol well you’re just purely wrong about humans being more robust than laws… Hilariously so. Especially if we narrow it to “lawmakers”.
minus-squareDominatorX1@thelemmy.clubOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down3·1 day agoYou make a strong argument. And I’m glad that you found it humorous.
So are many of the “demons” of many religions. A person with mental disorders is still a human.
That doesn’t make them or their actions any less reprehensible as far as the ones who end up being called such things.
I’m drawing a distinction between a human and a system of laws.
An important difference is that a system of laws is dumb, blind, gameable and breakable. A human, much less so.
lol well you’re just purely wrong about humans being more robust than laws… Hilariously so.
Especially if we narrow it to “lawmakers”.
You make a strong argument. And I’m glad that you found it humorous.