Comment on Will they wake up before it's too late?
CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 hours agoTrump is proving once and for all that so long as he doesn’t get punished for it, everything he does is legal.
Comment on Will they wake up before it's too late?
CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 hours agoTrump is proving once and for all that so long as he doesn’t get punished for it, everything he does is legal.
FishFace@piefed.social 21 hours ago
Not what “legal” means, is it.
floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 hours ago
Well it kinda is. If something is illegal but you can’t be punished for it, what does it mean really?
FishFace@piefed.social 20 hours ago
It means society has agreed officially that it should be punished, and you’re getting away with it.
You’re talking about the direct, practical implications, and sure, there it’s no different. But there’s more to life than that.
floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 hours ago
But society “officially” agreeing is morality, not law. What he has done and is doing is wrong and deserves punishment for that, not strictly because “it’s illegal”. The difference is demanding consequences vs relying on someone else to administer them.
baines@piefed.social 20 hours ago
yea we don’t care about the semantics when people are being shot with impunity