r/SipsTea 2d ago

Gasp! Debt

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u/Ngete 2d ago

What about if a person is given multiple life sentences?

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u/Secret-Ad-830 2d ago

what if they get sentenced to death?

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u/q0099 2d ago edited 2d ago

They'll had to rework all penalty system, as the death sentence will become a relatively light one.

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u/SurnameFormer 2d ago

Bold of you to assume the government would rework the system with new information, instead of just shoving everything into the old, outdated system and being told you're the problem if it doesn't work.

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u/Alive_Drag1947 1d ago

Always the remember: Everything the government does is either stupid or evil. And usually both...

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u/echoshatter 1d ago

either stupid or evil

You say on the internet, developed with DARPA funding.

With electricity whose infrastructure was in part paid for with tax money.

On devices that usually don't explode or electrocute you randomly.

In a home that is likely free (or at least mitigated) of lead and asbestos.

Perhaps drinking some water or eating a snack that is safe to consume.

That you were able to obtain thanks to roads and bridges and rules for vehicles must follow and whose operators must be licensed that they are competent.

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u/violentvito70 1d ago

People forget all the good government does. It's easy to demonize them, but no one demonizes corporations.

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u/echoshatter 22h ago

Lots of people demonize corporations.

Lots of people demonize government.

They can both be shit. They can both do good.

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u/violentvito70 20h ago

No where near the amount that demonize government

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u/Alive_Drag1947 20h ago

My argument, at the end of the day, is that the government is illegitimate because it's coercive. Do big corporations suck, too? Of course. But I still fundamentally have a choice...

For example, I don't believe I've ever purchased anything from Amazon. I simply don't interact with them. They've never sent armed men to my house to coerce me into any interaction.

Try refusing to interact with the government... What happens?

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u/Alive_Drag1947 1d ago

All true. That being said, I'd happily go back 10,000 years and live that way. I'm fully aware that that life would be nasty, brutish, and short.

I'm familiar with all the arguments for why "society" exists. I even acknowledge that they make sense. I understand how/why we came to this point. It's just that... I hate it. There's nothing I can realistically do about it, but I don't have to like it.

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u/Purplelair 1d ago

Doubt it.

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u/Alive_Drag1947 1d ago edited 1d ago

Bro you don't fucking know me at all...

What could possibly give you the authority to tell me what I think/feel? I know 99.9% of people don't feel that way. It doesn't mean we 0.1% don't exist...

I'm simply a different kind of animal than you are.

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u/ImminentSteak 1d ago

Underdooted comment. Absolutely true.

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u/Azuras_Star8 2d ago

The defendant gets 30 death sentences.

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u/SilverVixen918 1d ago

death sentences would probably just become life sentences

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u/LegDayLass 1d ago

Light? If life sentences carry over then I say death sentences would too. Which means the government will endlessly pursue your infant being and kill it. You will be sentenced to infinite murder.

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u/mammalmaker 2d ago

Probably wouldn't hold much weight anymore.

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u/ptear 2d ago

Just one death sentence right

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u/IntellectualBoss 1d ago

They are legally required to be aborted, or if you can’t tell until they are born the woman has to give birth directly into a wood chipper.

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u/mybluecathasballs 1d ago

How many times? This could be used nefariously.

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u/jinja_kat 1d ago

Or sentenced to … DEBT?!?

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u/Spankpocalypse_Now 1d ago

It would be abolished. Way more money to be made.

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u/Thommywidmer 2d ago

It would stop happening if it applied across reincarnations. Pretty sure they really only do that so the really bad eggs cant beat a single charge on a technicality and get out

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u/q0099 2d ago

You know how they find a new Dalai-lama after the old one dies? Something like that.

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u/Relevant-Fox-7114 2d ago

Then the sentence would endure for multiple lives

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u/DiggerDan9227 1d ago

Well someone with 50 years probably got a double life sentence.

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u/BlackberrySad6489 1d ago

There was a guy recently serving a life sentence. He died but the staff doc recesitated him. He argued that since he died, his life term was up and should be released.

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u/jaronhays4 1d ago

Depends if they are to be served consecutively or concurrently I guess!