• APassenger@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It’s this part.

    We’re telling them they’ve gone too far, seeing rules… and giving them weapons. Are we giving them seasons so they listen?

    And if they don’t listen, doesn’t this make us complicit and with exceedingly poor intensional optics?

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      1 year ago

      They know that the worst that will happen is a stern warning. “Don’t do that again, but it was justified. But don’t do it… OK, just a little bit, but still.”

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      “We’re telling you not to do this thing, and we assure you all we’ll ever do about you still doing it is to tell you again not to do it whilst carrying on helping you to do it”