• whaleross@lemmy.world
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    22 days ago

    Oh no, policing. Like in everything else in a functioning society because people do things they are not supposed to. You’re free to drive wherever but you’re but free to ram your car into pedestrians. Oh my god the oppression.

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      21 days ago

      Yes but one is words, and the other has a guaranteed tangible impact? I don’t think thats a viable analogy

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        21 days ago

        Somebody calling up your family and workplace and tell them you’ve been stealing for your drug habit are also just words.

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          17 days ago

          They’d get laughed off the line unless they tried to fabricate evidence against me, which at that point is a different crime.