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[โ€“] bobr@lemmy.libertarianfellowship.org 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

I have a theoretical question, just to better understand your logic, if you don't mind.

If I get into power - I will make it legal to hunt down and murder liberals (that's basically what liberals support happening under Zelensky's regime to me, so I think it's absolutely fair). Obviously it wouldn't be considered murder under my new law (like you don't consider kidnapping a kidnapping), but there would a term for it, like "making word a better place" (a la "arresting draft dodgers") or something like this.

Now, someone "makes world a better place" to your friends/family/etc. (we assume they are liberals). Will you say that what happened was "world was made a better place", or that those people were murdered?

If your answer is not "the world was made a better place" - why? How is this situation different from the kidnapping not being kidnapping because there is a law that says it's not?

You see, you can't say that the germans were murdering jews since it was under a legalist framework ๐Ÿค“