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[-] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 35 points 5 months ago

Normally I'd say that if you empower the state to execute a certain class of person you can look forward to the state changing that definition so that inconvenient people who did nothing wrong meet it, but I'm unlikely to be mistaken for someone who has committed 10s of billions of dollars in fraud and I can't help but feel like maybe if just one robber baron is held responsible for the enormous suffering they cause in pursuit of an amount of wealth so vast that it can never be spent and essentially only functions as a high score then the rest will realize that there is the sharp, distinct possibility that they can be held responsible as well.

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