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Janx@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Impound4017@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  As with Batman, the number only remains the same if you only kill one murderer. Kill two, and that’s a net positive!

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  • ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What Gotham really needs is safety bars around acid pools and more than one licensed therapist, preferably one that doesn’t turn into a manic pixie dream clown

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  • Janx@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s hard to argue with that!

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• FlyingCircus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I dunno man, killing a genocidal maniac makes someone a hero in my book.

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  • SayJess@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’d say we throw that hypothetical person a parade. During which, they are presented with various awards, and accolades. Definitely an honorary doctorate somewhere too. We would then of course need to nominate that person for a Nobel peace prize—and I’d bet they’d win.

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• NONE_dc@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  we’re no better than them.

  The slave doesn’t want to be better than the slaver, they want to be free.

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• Riverside@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If we’re fine with resorting to violence to get what we want, we’re no better than them

  This person doesn’t know how Nazism was defeated.

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  • JcbAzPx@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It was defeated by rebuilding the country afterwards. A lesson we learned from the aftermath of WWI that seems to have been forgotten.

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    • Riverside@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Rebuilding the country after what exactly? Lmfao

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      • JcbAzPx@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        After the same thing that happened to them in WWI. The rebuild kept WWIII from happening another couple decades later and rehabilitated several despotic countries drunk on their own brand of patriotism. It was the real winner of WWII.

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• ruan@lemmy.eco.br ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If you kill a murderer, the number of murderers in the world remains the same…

  Lmfao, you really cannot be serious with this kind of reasoning, right?

  If you are serious, here’s an equally as ingenuous counter argument:

  • If you kill two murderers or more you will have effectively reduced the number of murderers in the world…

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• AntiBullyRanger@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Damn! States seem to have no options all the time! Did Israel had no option than to Genocide Gaza‽

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• Caillte@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  There’s an argument that murder is unlawful killing of another human. If ending the life of a murderer is done lawfully, the number is m-1.

  I am not claiming that I support this theory, just putting it into the discourse as a thing that some folks could easily believe.

  Also, it’s semantics as the argument you’re making still perfectly holds if the word murderer is swapped for ‘killer’

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