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      I was asked to feed an outdoor cat in my neighborhood. I did. Several small animals have likely died because I helped one feel more comfortable. Do I need to go to prison.

      I exist in USA where habitat is constantly destroyed for profit. There is no way for me to not be a part of this system. Should I be executed?

      I fixed some damage to my home where there were carpenter ants digging in the wood. Not only did several likely die, but I also ruined their home. Shackle me to a trailer hitch.

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        I should have been more specific. The point isn’t about what predators do in the wild, or about accidental, unavoidable deaths. It’s about the violence that is intentional, done on a massive scale, and most importantly, completely unnecessary. It all boils down to choice. A lion in the wild isn’t having a moral debate about its next meal; it’s just surviving. We, on the other hand, have tons of other options. Nobody’s talking about punishing someone for accidentally stepping on a bug. It’s about questioning the entire systems that treat living, feeling beings like they’re just products for our pleasure or convenience, when it’s totally avoidable.

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      Is calling a MTF transperson a man considered ‘transphobia’ in your mind?

      Do you honestly believe people should be imprisoned for it?

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        Intentionally and knowingly calling a MTF trans person a man is transphobia. Dunno about jail, but I’d be down to have legally enforced punishment for that. To be fair, that should probably cover all cases of (intentionally and knowingly) misgendering people, in a similar fashion to defamation.

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          Dang. Thanks for being honest, but I vehemently disagree with you.

          People should be allowed to call others what they want. It’s up to us to be mature enough to handle people calling us things we don’t like.

          You should know that advocating for legal repercussions here drives people away from the cause.

          Edit: It’s sad how many of you want to control others’ speech like this, but I guess it just goes to show that we’re not really on the same side.

          If a politician is running a platform of pushing legal penalties for calling people things they don’t like, I will make sure to vote against them.

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      Anti LGBTQ+ bigotry in general.

      This kind of bigotry has led to suicides of LGBTQ+ people and terrorist attacks against their communities. This is beyond “offending” someone.

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    Generally think mandatory minimums are unjust, but political corruption. It’s wrong per se but also has downstream negative effects on society.

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    Fixed prices for fines. These should be based on a fixed percentage, not fixed dollar amount, of a persons overall wealth. None of this bullshit that can bankrupt a poor person but be the price of admission for the rich.

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      Historically, fee-based “laws” are specifically designed to punish the poor. You off to update the whole system, or just the last few thousand years or so?

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        The people using speaker on transit, or blasting external speakers while hiking through otherwise perfectly good woods… are disturbing the peace, sure. So are the college kids two floors up when they’re pre-gaming at 9pm. But the police would not take any of these calls seriously, unless the OP rule/law were in place.

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          I’ll defend people playing music through speakers in the woods…. It’s the fucking woods. It’s away from civilization. You’ll be away from them shortly. It’s fiiiiine. It’s not like you’re captive on public transportation.

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            Boo. That shit carries so far. I go to the woods to get away from human bullshit. I’d much prefer the wind through the land with a birdsong accompaniment.

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      Leaf blowers and my neighbor’s power washer that emits a high pitched tone like a mosquito ringtone the whole time he runs it. It pierces my brain.

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      Yes! The amount of people who feel entitled to blast noise is too damn high! I was gonna comment on playing noise n speakers in public settings, but I’ll happily pile on here.

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    If you are going through a place with a drive through that wraps around the building and you pull up far enough to block the exit so that it fucks up the works and an employee has to come out and direct traffic to unfuck it you should have your license revoked. Clearly you don’t have the situational awareness to be operating a motor vehicle.

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    Willful violations of the Constitution. Right now, elected officials can brazenly disregard the Constitution and the worst that happens is they are told not to do that again in the future, pretty please.

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      Kind of pathetic how we still have to solve the issue of cutting up baby dicks as ritual.

      Egypt’s worse; they still cut off the clits of preteen girls as ritual.

      Jews and Egyptians aren’t even trying to hide it. They do it specifically to reduce the sensitivity of sexual organs.

      Christians are the useful idiots (as always) who have been duped into thinking it’s for ‘medical’ or ‘aesthetic’ purposes. In all honesty, Christians cut up the dicks of their kids because the dad’s dick was cut up for him and he doesn’t want to admit there’s something wrong with it.

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        Christians don’t do it. Americans do it. And they did it for the same explicit reason as the others thanks to the psycho weirdo Kellogg of the cereal fame to try to prevent masturbation, and sexual pleasure.

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      You’re gonna love learning about a certain priestly duty at said events. Clue: it involves the priest’s mouth. 🤢

      Oh, I’m sorry, downvoters. I misspoke. It’s “rabbi”, not “priest”. Oops.

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        Maybe in some cultures, but that’s not the norm. It was always just the doctor and his assistant. Honestly, it’s distressing to observe, so no parents or anyone else were allowed to be in the room. *I was a medical assistant for a gyno who did circumcisions during mom’s postpartum check up.