What's a case where the right thing to do is illegal?
Posted Sep 17, 2022, 8:04 AM UTC
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A Russian telling the truth about what’s happening in Ukraine
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Or Ukraine on what makes Russia mad about them!
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I'm 100% sure you can tell a Ukrainian that Ukraine exists and they will be 100% fine with that statement.
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When you have a child molester in your crosshairs.
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When you encounter a pedophile. For some reason, they keep infringing the central human right of "shoving a pedophile into a woodchipper"
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Cleanup costs I think caused that one
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Sometimes when people are extremely sick or old they just want to die and end their life in peace. I think it would be right to let them do that. Fall asleep with the right medication and don't wake up. But here it's illegal.
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Good point. Also huge potential for abuse ig
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The problem with this though is that family and others looking for inheritance or to cut care home costs eating into the inheritance would be pushing for the elderly or sick to die.
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And plenty would too.
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Yes it would become more of a financial thing than an empathy/ humane thing. That and people can be very sick and on death's door then make good recoveries. It can be impossible to tell. It's a slippery slope when we start playing God.
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Yes you're absolutely right. I still think it should be allowed under certain circumstances. I know elderly people who will not survive their disease and now they can't go to the toilet, lay down or do anything by themselves while having extreme pain all day. I think in a case like that it should be OK. But yeah, where do you draw the line.
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Killing a pedophile or rapist
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There was that dad who shot and killed his sons molester and wasn't charged with much in the end. It was all caught on camera too.
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Beautiful
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He was sentenced to 5 years of probation and 300hrs of community service. He was originally charged with manslaughter and sentenced to 7 years but because the defence proved he was driven to insanity after hearing the news, and he didn't know the difference between right and wrong during those few days around the shooting of his sons molester.
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Hiding refugees
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Yeah… that’s not illegal in many places
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The compassion for the offender!
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Feeding the homeless in public
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Someone killed your children
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Idk when killing children would ever be the right thing to do tbh
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tax evasion
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But if everybody avoided tax who'd pay for everything like roads,education,health care, national security etc.
Agreed tax is a pain the ass but without it we'd fall apart as a society.
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you rly think the government putting that money to good use
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Well can you suggest the alternative?
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ill admit anything i suggest it would be flawed but i dont trust the government because tbh if anything i think its best that grubby money men dont have my money that they can put in their offshore accounts
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Pirating Nintendo games.
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Sometime you gotta blow the red light after sitting for a looooong time… sometimes you gotta break the law for the greater good of humanity.
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Any law that is unconstitutional
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Not all countries have constitutions though.
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They should
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Execute the pedophiles.
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stealing in 90% of scenarios with common people
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Nah.
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It's never right to do something illegal.
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This is false.
Bad laws exist.
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What would Jesus do? Jesus would obey the law. It's the right thing to do. You only disagree because Satan is in your hearts.
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religious nut job, who would have guessed?
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He would also respect opinions of others without judgement, but that's just in the Bible so what do I know 🥲
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If you can't quote it, you're making it up.
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Did Jesus write all the laws? Because if not it's a bit silly to say he would obey all of them. You don't know what Jesus would've done, do you. Laws get changed. They have flaws sometimes. Or are outdated.
But yeah it's easier to just obey and don't think about what needs to be changed.
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In Matthew 5:17-18, Jesus says, "Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the law until everything is accomplished."
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He absolutely would not obey the law. He was literally a criminal that was given the death penalty
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He was following the law by accepting death instead of fleeing. But he didn't violate any laws, the people wrongly accused him as a false prophet.
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Who cares what some dead Jew would do?
Especially one who is dead specifically because he very publicly broke the law and got nailed to a plank for it.
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And lawmakers have never abused their power, not once in history 🥲
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Stealing medicine that will save your wife’s life because the shopkeeper overcharged it.
Charging for life-saving medicine? What is this, the middle ages?
Close. Heinz Dilemma.
Think it still exists nowadays though.