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A limit of manslaughter is collective evil where criminals tempted to be racist have a potentially unlimited to hate other countries. As punishing individual people for manslaughter as if it were murder isn’t really evil if the criminal was at risk of intoxication into more evil where the criminal w...

If provocation is paradoxical it’s because academics who aren’t very talented sometimes have to express a lot of anger just to resolve a maths problem that if anger were interpreted as pain then no one would need to respond to immediate anger in the same way they can hold back a tummy bug. So a hidd...

That kid's like a regular Don Juan. There'll always be rapists due to sexual hedonism no matter how high the jail sentence is which limits the notion of deterrence for non-sexual crimes too. In the same way that many countries committed evil in history so too can some of their children side with ev...

Terrorism can be a limit of deterrence as a philosophy for sentencing other types of criminals. Terrorists can often view the state as evil whether through paranoia or simply a warped mindset. The state doesn’t have to be evil to be interpreted as evil when a lack of help can be subjectively interpr...

Anyone can sue for anything. Winning, OTOH... The legality of shock sites isn’t really a glorification of brutal misogyny when there’s an equal amount of macabre misandry in a way that symbolises evil. The ethics of such websites might be strangely circular. Who knows if mass shootings could be red...

When I was in first year of secondary school I was given a wedgie in the changing rooms before hurling training. I’m not sure if I could sue for sexual assault!

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"Richard Patterson, 65, of Margate, was acquitted of killing 60-year-old girlfriend Francisca Marquinez in 2015 after a week-long trial, according to the Sun Sentinel. During the trial, his lawyers initially argued that Marquinez died accidentally while performing oral sex on him at her apartme...

Banning perversions might always be complicated when there are innocent versions of the perversion. Feigned choking to mimic homicide and dodo wearing to mimic infantilism can deceive others in spite of being physically safe. So there might always be grey areas in sex crime. For example the close-in...

Statutory rape might seem harsh until we realise that evil people might always be more masculine no matter what form of hedonism with the age of consent is legalised. After all evil people have a worldview of violence. It’s possible that an older adult could marry a teenager to mitigate statutory ra...

Irregular sentences for sex crimes might reflect how sex crimes can be more tempting than non-sexual crimes. So an inordinately high sentence for rape would be ethical if everyone else were being incited to rape.

No one ever has to be a murderous sex addict if people had a sex-after-death card much like an organ donor card!

A dilemma with light sentences for juvenile or mentally ill offenders isn’t that the sentences are evil but the sentences can be very ethical in a capitalist or amoral way. The harsh reality is that temporarily giving low sentences to juvenile offenders until wealth inequality is addressed isn’t alw...

Even if we could all agree that people should be slightly forgiving there might never be a precise answer as to how forgiving others should be not simply out of the uniqueness of each incident but also because the people are themselves individualistic.

One way to assess sexual assault is to contrast it with physical assault. So if someone is punched there’s no stigma attached to it and it’s easier to call the police afterwards or to push back against the attacker to try to flee. Very few people would ever consent to being punched. Yet if people ge...

The lack of gun control in society might be an amoral clue as to why manslaughter is sometimes tolerated in court along with low rape prosecutions.