• booty [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    8 months ago

    I mean, that wasn’t an abuction or kidnapping.

    It was exactly both of those things, and I don’t understand why you are the second person to reply to me under the mistaken impression that abduction and kidnapping are only possible when they are done illegally. Where are you getting this nonsense from?

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      8 months ago

      Where are you getting this nonsense from?

      The law. Yes, abduction and kidnapping are only possible when they are done illegally. Illegality is a crucial part of what those terms mean.

      You’re essentially making the libertarian “tax is theft” argument: it would be criminal if I did it to you, so it must be criminal when the government does it to you.

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        8 months ago

        Illegality is a crucial part of what those terms mean.

        No dude, it isn’t. At all. You literally have it backwards. The law uses these terms because they are English terms with meanings. The law doesn’t give them their meanings.

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            8 months ago

            There is no legal way to kidnap someone.

            There are a wide variety of legal ways to kidnap someone. Such as the one I described which happened to me.

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              8 months ago

              How is this logic different from the article’s? You’re both calling a legal arrest you don’t like “kidnapping.”

              See also: a libertarian saying “of course you can legally steal, it’s called taxes!”

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                8 months ago

                Why are you bootlicking? The US government doesn’t define common English words and their usage, and it’s very weird that you seem to think that the fact that they have control over the land means that they are incapable of committing violence against people. What the government goons I am describing did to me were acts of state-sanctioned violence in which I was taken under threat of physical harm to a location I did not want to go to and held against my will despite having done absolutely nothing to deserve violence being inflicted upon me. People with fucking souls call that abduction/kidnapping, where is your soul?

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                    8 months ago

                    Consistency is when you can’t call an act of violence what it is if it’s cops committing the act of violence