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[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 76 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

My hope is that he signs the pardon before she testifies, and then she burns him down on the stand.

[–] Petter1@discuss.tchncs.de 47 points 2 weeks ago

As if she would.. She will just do what she do best, just not for Epstein, but for mr president himself, I fear…

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 31 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Why would he pardon her? Prison is sheer hell and she got a huge upgrade. Fuck around and they can take that back. They got all the leverage they need without the screams of outrage a pardon would bring.

[–] vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

offtopic: Maybe that's why a transparent and safe prison system, a bit like what Norway has, would do well for USA. Don't tell me anything about feeding criminals in luxury, because you are spending far more taxpayer money on far more idiotic things. Also rehabilitation is really a big thing.

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Child abusers don't deserve rehabilitation.

[–] vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's usually considered smart to avoid hard problems.

Thus to say that every criminal deserves rehabilitation. You won't achieve anything good from taking it from them anyway.

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Well we shouldn't be letting them back out so rehabilitation is pointless and impossible anyway. If you can't understand that fucking kids is bad without being institutionalized you're a lost cause

[–] vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

There's plenty of context, the best is that nobody has the moral right to punish others.

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

No one has a moral right to fuck kids either and they have to be dealt with so they don't fuck more kids. There is no "context" that makes that excusable.

[–] vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Just how they rehabilitate murderers, other sexual offenders, and who not. People change over time. The part that doesn't change (for pedophiles) is their attraction to children (unless, well, they intentionally do something like chemical castration or whatever), but that's not their crime, the act is their crime. If an examination by mental health specialists and who not deems they won't commit such crimes anymore, there's no reason at all to keep them locked up. Maybe with certain amount of tracking.

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Mental health specialists are wrong all the time. Prisoners lie to get out of prison. No amount of risk to children is acceptable, especially for someone who's already proven themselves a danger. There is no benefit to anyone besides the predator letting them back out.

[–] vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Rehabilitation doesn't have to go as far as letting them back out. There are different kinds of conditions, of ability to communicate with the outside world, to work etc. One might even make special isolated settlements where people live almost as if they were free, but can't escape.

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Why bother with all that when it only benefits child molesters? They should be happy with the fact that our justice system is flawed enough that we can't just execute them like they deserve. There are valuable members of society those resources could be directed towards.

[–] vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I don't think we'll understand each other.

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Advocate for people who deserve it if your goal is to be understood.

[–] vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's far more harmful to allow people, especially people like you, decide who deserves what. So no, all my points stand.

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

How exactly do you think these things are decided currently if not by people?

[–] vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 weeks ago

They don't have to be decided at all. That's why it's smart to avoid them.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Sure, but she knows it as well, and I doubt she'd risk her life thusly.

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah :(

I think shalafi's right though; keeping her in rich comfortable prison is how they're going to control her