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A Boring Dystopia

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[–] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

but he's operating in a legal framework.

That defence is flimsy AF .

The US did a whole thing in Germany saying following the law was a bullshit excuse , they've literally set the precedent for assholes following the law being killed when they're guilty of mass murder.

[–] yarr@feddit.nl 6 points 1 week ago

Since our courts care about case law and not about moral frameworks, I think you'll see that defense being used quite successfully.

[–] Jimmyeatsausage@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

To be fair, our government then hired any Nazi they thought was smart enough to be useful.