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> It's also trivially easy to not end up in involuntary servitude.

Stupid people always say nonsense like this as if no person in prison is innocent.



It's also black and white thinking that carries an ego-filled, nuance-lacking, disregard for the myriad of circumstances that underpin human behavior.


Read more about it in Herbert Marcuse: One-Dimensional Man


Stupid people also assume there are not exceptions to every rule. But you can't build your systems (or your arguments) around edge cases, because that would be ignoring the vast majority of use cases.


Another stupid comment. What do you think about the death penalty?

If you happen to be the one dying for no reason would you consider that just a trivial unfortunate edge case?

Educate yourself:

https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/policy-issues/policy/innocence

Every day I am happy many here are techies and not politicians.




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