Recent content by Politesse

Code for, they haven't got a suspect. They are blasting the local social media with requests to anyone in the public who knows anything, and it really makes you wonder about people if no one ever comes forward. But that is the most common outcome to such pleas.

Sounds like an average student submission to me...

No one gives a shit what happens in Stockton. :(

Yeah I heard about that one. Fucking horrific. Mostly kids hurt and killed.

The "Wise Old Mentor" of Hellenism's holy family.

Thus exemplifying Shinto virtues of the good life. Not entirely dissimilar to the Muslim perspective on Isa and the cross. To be willing to submit to an unjust fate for the sake of faith is a sign of good character, but actually needing to do so should not be the fate of a true prophet. For...

I take it no one in the thread is proposing that we actually do anything about the Sudanese conflict?

Dutifully repeating the president's speeches? Squawk, parrot, squawk.

Literally no one says that. You're the one demanding that we feel instead of thinking critically, here.

Because you have a right to a fair trial, a right to have the same laws applied to you as to any other citizen, and a right to a sentence commensurate with your crime. Our justice system is not based on "feels", but on a rigorous set of laws, policies, and guidelines subject to democratic...

Why wouldn't they? Jail terms end. Unless that is what you are proposing changing. Are you? Incorrect. Jails are not consistent or effective mental health care providers. Do you believe that they should be? We could design such a system, but we do not have such a system. "Little to no...

Then clarify. I didn't "accuse" you of an opinion, I'm asking you to tell us what that opinion is. I asked about the vandalism case, because that is the only case you have explicitly mentioned an objection to the handling of, as it is the reason he was on parole at the time of the accused...

You were. I think part of your problem is perhaps that you read "therapy" and think of Freudian psychoanalysis or something like that? Any treatment intended to relieve or heal a disorder is a therapy, and that is the sense in which I meant it. There are a lot of potential therapies, some more...

So you are, in fact, advocating a life sentence in prison for vandalism? (The charge he had been arrested for when the judge made the decision you are complaining about?) Or for the previous charges of physical assault? Don't get pissed at me for asking. YOU'RE calling for judicial reform. It...

I said no such thing. What I did say was that throwing him in the pen for a few weeks is not solving the problem, only delaying it. Rather than echo Don's point, I'll just repost it: Ditto. This man has been in and out of our penal and healthcare systems his entire life. Another brief jail...