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    3 days ago

    Sure. My statement isn’t without nuance. If someone commits a crime, if they go along with hate speech, support a fascist regime, or impinge on peoples’ rights in the name of a government, there should be legal consequence.

    But even then, and I understand this is the internet so I have to spell it out nice and clear for everyone, if someone has paid the price, done their sentence, and is honestly, and truly, and really reformed, that should be taken into consideration. That doesn’t mean they can have every comfort back, or people need to forgive them, or anything else… but to remove all hope of redemption after someone has paid for their actions is bleak, dark, and does not embody humanist spirit.

    In other words, we don’t have to be nice, but we also don’t have to sink to their level.

    That said, if they do it again, they can go fucking die in a hole. Respectfully.