Let me get this straight:
- Destroying the planet for profit: LEGAL
- Peacefully suggesting they shouldn't: ILLEGAL
The law has nothing to do with morality, no matter what anyone tells you.
this post was submitted on 24 Jul 2023
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Nobody has ever claimed laws are purely for morality.
No, but there are tons of people who believe something is moral as long as it's legal, and even more people who believe something being illegal makes it inherently immoral.
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Or like the line of a song goes:
This is not a court of justice, son
this is a court of law
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I am afraid you have this very straight :/ I am so sick of our corporate-fascist world order. Big corporations are basically the worst dictator you can imagine, but with money dedicated to a PR department.
Yeah, imagine a 2D graph with axes going from legal to illegal, and legitimate to illegitimate.
Some things are legal although they are illegitimate (like 'Destroying the planet'), and others are illegal although they are legitimate (like some forms of civil disobedience or sabotage).
In an ideal world the two are aligned, but ours is not ideal. Also worth noting legal-illegal is rather objective, while legitimate-illegitimate is rather subjective.
I found Thoreau interesting on the topic, who commented being jailed for withholding taxes to not support the war: "The bars are meant to separate bad from good people".
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Of all the things to be guilty of these days, that's a pretty decent one.
Disobeying the foot soldiers of capital is a core tenet of climate protesting. This is akin to charging a band for making noise.
She's getting into good trouble.
Harriet Tubman was also a criminal. Just about every single hero was technically a criminal.
I'm sure if Harriet Tubman was active today, she would be facing the same sort of bullshit as Greta. Probably worse thanks to her complexion.
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her punishment was a 2500 SEK fine? They've just told the entire country that we can pay the equivalent of a new bicycle to block oil tankers, this is amazing.
Dagsböter, though, so it is based on income.
Which sorta just makes it better since it'll be lower if you're poor lol
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This seems like a very good trade.
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Based
Based and gretapilled
Based as fuck
Sweden found guilty of failing to obey world's leading scientists and researchers' calls for immediate drastic action against climate change.
arrest Greta Thunberg
We did it, we arrested climate change!
Sounds like a South Park episode
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