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[โ€“] selokichtli@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

You are deflecting from the issue here. Legitimate violence, whatever you and I understand for "legitimate" is not the issue, since I guess we can recognize that violence is gradual. We are talking death penalty and it's derivations in the US judicial system. There are a lot of states that won't just systematically kill their citizens and citizens from other countries. A type of zealot entitlement is needed by their governments to keep doing it in cases like this.

[โ€“] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago

I'm mostly just going to disengage because I think we're really on the same side here and I'm just being a pedant on a thread about an innocent man being murdered, but I think you're kinda missing the point too. Social murder happens literally everywhere constantly, even socialist countries.