Or is it democrats and their love for crime and violence in their cities?
See how easy it is to say dumb things?
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See how easy it is to say dumb things?
Thank me later :)
Spoken like someone who doesn't work in manufacturing...
It'd be horribly depressing.
"Every man dies. Not every man really lives" - William Wallace
The self righteous people like you are way more dangerous in my humble opinion...
There's a religion built around that concept, it's called buddhism and it's been around for 2,500 years.
Later:
> there is yet someway that I will make an impact in the years to come.
It's the ego that makes us believe there is something special about ourselves and that should translate into some form of recognition. The problem is most of us aren't special (or lucky), and as we age, it becomes clearer and clearer.
Don't want to have regrets? Do your best, have fun and expect nothing.
HN in a nutshell.
That's the definition of being a child.
Do you think that a child is driven by long term planning or wisdom?
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
> how being put in jail for transgressions and being free are interrelated?
Jail acts both as a deterrent, through fear of being punished, and it also incapacitates the offender to commit more crime to protect society.
> Who or what determines what is a severe enough transgression to lose your freedom?
It's the people, through laws, who determines what behavior is or is not acceptable in society.
Now of course, I'm talking in principle here, individual freedom is limited by other things, private property for example, or justice, like in this case with this guy in solitary confinement, but it's because we live in society with other people and we all need to get along, but the principle still remains, freedom is a natural right that precedes society itself.
This was the sense of my comment.
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> If you feel that such a disclaimer is necessary, it would be better to phrase the question differently in the first place.
And waste even more time, no thanks.
Not american, so not my country even if I live in the US.
> the fact that it seems to be shared by a portion of population this large is deeply mistifying
That portion is shrinking, because we are being infected more and more by the european virus of equality rather than freedom unfortunately.
> The OP, though, wants to make him keep paying for it forever.
If you have killed someone maybe you shouldn't try to become famous and make money out of it, that's what I understood from OP's comment and I agree with that. If nothing else, for your victim and his family/friend.
> Thank you, I'll take it as a compliment.
From your profile I gather you are from Poland, a country that, if I'm not mistaken, has benefited from that american impulse towards freedom in the past. So, what happened here, was freedom ok when it was against communism but not ok anymore now that the USSR is gone? Real question, not trying to be a prick here.
Society doesn't owe people anything besides freedom, which that guy had, and used it to commit a crime, and paid for it.
> America - I won't ever understand you. I wouldn't want to be a part of a society of such robdachshunds ever, there's not enough money on the whole planet to convince me otherwise.
Guess what, I wouldn't want to be part of a society of self righteous people like you either.
IMO your comment is even more inspiring than the thread itself :)
There is no uneducated white people who experience a massive income gap maybe?
C'est la vie :)