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darkknight109 posted...

"Those gat dang illegul immgrants should learn to follow the law!" while simultaneously celebrating someone committing a felony.

Your ability to contort two opinions that differ wildly due to the context into what you believe are equivalent arguments is truly astounding.

Sure. There's just one problem with this assertion: the laws on corporal punishment haven't changed. At no point has it ever been legal for a group of prisoners to assault another prisoner, and judicially-administered corporal punishment hasn't been practised in nearly 70 years

The hoops you are capable of jumping through never cease to amaze me. You are essentially saying "at no point in history has this specific instance(prisoners attacking other prisoners) been legal", which ignores that a system where that sort of thing would be legal essentially cannot come into being due to the environment required for such a system. A judicially-administered corporal punishment system would come into place long beforehand because it's a much more realistic precedent.

Nor, for that matter, do a majority of people think it should change.

That's an interesting assertion because it's entirely unverifiable. What people say and how they truly feel are so frequently differing. There are crimes that are typically considered universally abhorrent, such as harming children, rape, and murder, yet you still have people who advocate for those who commit those crimes. Family members of criminals are a great example, it's all too common for them to say that even the most horrific of criminals are good people who made a mistake. Some of them even choose to live in denial rather than accept that the person they know is bad.

I mean, would you be fine with a bunch of child murderers beating up an informant in prison on drug charges? After all, that's still prisoners meting out "jailhouse justice".

This scenario doesn't work. In my ideal world, there aren't bunches of child murderers because they've all been executed because there's no reason to keep them around.

I can go ahead and flip this around by pointing out that your mindset involves a group of people committing a felony so that they can administer a punishment that they lack any authority to give against someone who has been offered no legal defence against it.

My mindset removes the opportunity for this felony to occur.

Those illegal immigrants, on the other hand, generally want to harm no one - the vast majority just want a better life for themselves, which is why crime rates for illegal immigrants are lower than those of the native-born population.

Everything an illegal immigrant does harms innocent people in some way. I'm also still surprised you still shit out that sad excuse for a statistic because you know just how much that statistic is manipulated.
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