• booty [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      7 months ago

      I’m against killing prisoners but I’m 100% for keeping the death penalty on the books just so you can sentence all billionaires to death before graciously lessening their sentence

          • Owl [he/him]@hexbear.net
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            7 months ago

            It’s not ideal, but it would take a great deal of effort to restrain a billionaire’s influence (merely stripping their assets and imprisoning them isn’t enough), and while I would prefer a society that spends that great deal of effort to save people, there are still homeless and starving people whose lives could be saved with less effort.

            • JohnBrownNote [comrade/them, des/pair]@hexbear.net
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              7 months ago

              billionaires are kinda like monarchists, they could “abdicate” and peacefully live out the rest of their life as a dirt farmer or work in a factory they used to own but most of them would rather die than be a normal person.

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              7 months ago

              imo it is a minor form of liberalism to believe that there exists any amount of punishment and recuperative effort that would meaningfully remove the very power and influence that got said billionaire to this point in the first place

          • AOCapitulator [they/them, she/her]@hexbear.net
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            7 months ago

            I’m against the death penalty because the person thus penalized may not be guilty, and could be rehabilitate. Post revolution I’d say the death penalty should flat out not exist, but for now, there’s no way to be wrong about billionaires

            They either are or are not billionaires. And if they ARE, they get it in the neck

      • RyanGosling [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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        I’m generally not okay with the death sentence. But I’m also not going to lose sleep over this one. If you dropped dead tomorrow in their factories they won’t even be notified about it. You’ll be replaced before they finish their caviar. Hopefully she’ll be dead before I finish pissing.