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> If you haven't been proven guilty, you are presumed innocent.

That's a sensible procedural rule for courts to follow, but I'm not a court. I have no legal or moral responsibility to presume someone is innocent. I exercise my own judgement on the matter.

I agree we don't want vigilante executions in nyc to become more normal than they already are. But don't get it twisted and think that means we are obligated to believe, or act as if we believe, that someone is innocent.



You're free to privately judge anyone anyway you want.

As long as you don't impede their freedom to live their own life. We have laws that prevent you from harming other people. Not only you cannot murder them but there are also laws around stalking, defamation etc.

Nobody is forcing us to like the people who we think are terrible human beings.


The point is that we do not have laws that prevent the CEO from harming many people - instead the legal frameworks supported his deadly actions


Perhaps the problem is the fact that healthcare is privatized in the first place?


Yes or controlled through ultimately undemocratic powers and without free associative non coercive means (people are able to coordinate on work and employ leadership without requiring a hierarchy of controllers). We all pay our time and labor into these services but it’s proxied through money and abstracted away




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