lol okay yeah the left-wing hunger for retribution is exactly identical to the right-wing hunger, this is a normal thing to postulate
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she's literally mocking as inherently risible the idea of somebody wanting Amy Cooper to get a life sentence for *checks notes* attempting to murder a random Black man for asking her to use public property correctly I don't support the carceral state, but, uh.
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Like I don't think Cooper should have gotten life in prison either but I don't think it's stupid for the hate crime of attempted murder to be considered on the merits of exactly what it is
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oh okay the popularity of the Richard Spencer punching video is indicative of "a situational form of sadism", alright, yeah, because of course
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Contra is going full Margaret Atwood with her extreme level of emphasis on Odysseus executing his slaves for sleeping with Penelope's suitors, which... okay fine, that's the most fucked up moment in Homer, but where are you taking it
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"I don't think Odysseus is supposed to be an asshole" lady he literally invades allied territory to force one of his friends to kill his innocent daughter just to facilitate sea travel to stage a war for a woman he doesn't want to marry
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He's not an asshole from Homer's POV, the point is Homer approves of his actions because they reflect the moral system of his society
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I mean, some of them. He gets punished by the gods a LOT.
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For transgressive norms related to specific gods, mind.
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Right, but killing the suitors and his own slaves isn't supposed to be a story of him sinning but of him being a hero
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As Natalie points out, this isn't one of the things the gods punish him for Indeed, this is something Athena pulls a deus ex machina for to get him out of the realistic consequences of doing such a thing
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I mean, Telegonus literally kills him with the anger of the sea and then marries his widow
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That's fanfic though
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