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Oklahoma banned trans students from bathrooms. Now a bullied student is dead
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Anarchy was never mentioned.
That is mob rule. It's not the rule of law.
That is not what mob rule is, and this literally has nothing to do with government
Mob rule is the breakdown of law and order. Which a failing of governance.
You mean like we have now with psychotic and treasonous christofascists trying to destroy freedom while you complain about "law and order"?
You have never existed in the real world, buddy
Freedom doesn't exist without law and order. Mobs lynch wrong people as often as not. It's why the legal system should be above politics. It amazes me America has politically appointed judges. The judiciary should be separate from, and independent of, the government. If the legal system doesn't work, law and order can break down and you get anarchy.
Hey you're starting to get it!
Then as long as we agree anarchy is bad we basically are agreeing.
Anarchy is indeed bad. Unfortunately you don't seem to grasp what anarchy is. Hint: it's not street justice.
Street "justice" is a break down of law and order. No one is accountable for the mob and is not held to any rules. How is that an outbreak of anarchy?
Your "law and order":
This Black History Month remember human trafficking was legal. Slavery was legal. Jim Crow was legal. US Govt paying reparations to white enslavers but not to the enslaved was legal. Prison slavery still IS legal.
Do not let legality & power be a measure of morality & justice. -Qasim Rashid
Law isn't perfect, and must constantly be challenged, but law based democracy is the best society humans have come up with. Plenty of bad law, for example, the war on drugs is stupid, like prohibition alcohol was. But mob lynching can do be part of any justice system.
You sound like a guy who'd be trying to reason with Nazi Stormtroopers as they were shoving you into the boxcar. No great injustices were ever solved through nonviolent means. None.Power does not abdicate itself because you begged for it to.
The Nazi haven't taken over law yet. In the UK at least, they are going to be losing a lot of power next election. The US is looking screwed. As always, I'm glad I don't live there.
Do you know how many times we heard that they were gonne lose the next election?...or that they couldn't possibly pass such a bill here? UK is at even greater risk from what I gather.
Even they think they are going to lose the election. They are so far behind in the polls, both opinion and by-elections, it will take quite an event to change things.
You really are desperate to defend fascists, aren't you?
Really not, screw them, but with a functioning justice system. Mob justice is no justice at all.