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Humanity has reached its peak hypocrisy.
Killing other humans is bad, unless its done so by withholding life saving treatment.
Torturing animals to death is illegal. But the vast majority of animals on earth die a slow and painful death within factory farms.
Turning someone into a slave by keeping them trapped in debt is illegal. But this is precisely what the world bank and the imf is doing to poor countries.
I could go on and on listing examples.
Unless it's sanctioned by the state, of course
Well, that's called the monopoly on violence for you. Its also a good thing in state theory.
Please do!
holding a plane with a bomb hostage is terrorism. holding the entire planet with nuclear bombs hostage is called 'nuclear deterrence'
knowingly buying stolen goods is illegal. but knowingly buying goods that were produced trough imperialism and slavery (which is even worse btw) is somehow legal.
Selling a gun to a would-be murderer is illegal. Selling weapons to a genocidal state on the other hand is perfectly fine.
putting poison into someones coffee would be murder. But polluting the environment to the point where it can no longer support life is normal.
The entire system is just designed to look self-regulatory.
“The death of one man is a tragedy; the death of one million, a statistic.” — J. Stalin
u need to post each one of these separately. and regularly.
but bottom line is if it helps the ruling class it's legal. otherwise it's not
Or genocide by proxy.
Literally not, in EU at least, the death is legally mandatory to be the quickest possible method. They usually go for a steel stake straight through the brain.
Spending your entire life inside of a factory farm is mental torture