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booty@hexbear.net 7 months agoI mean, that wasn’t an abuction or kidnapping.
It was exactly both of those things, and I don’t understand why you are the second person to reply to me under the mistaken impression that abduction and kidnapping are only possible when they are done illegally. Where are you getting this nonsense from?
420blazeit69@hexbear.net 7 months ago
The law. Yes, abduction and kidnapping are only possible when they are done illegally. Illegality is a crucial part of what those terms mean.
You’re essentially making the libertarian “tax is theft” argument: it would be criminal if I did it to you, so it must be criminal when the government does it to you.
booty@hexbear.net 7 months ago
No dude, it isn’t. At all.
420blazeit69@hexbear.net 7 months ago
Non-legal definitions of those terms also imply illegality. There is no legal way to kidnap someone.
booty@hexbear.net 7 months ago
There are a wide variety of legal ways to kidnap someone. Such as the one I described which happened to me.