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Calling out the girl's behavior is not defending the men. The girl, the 7, and the 7's peers on the wider chat are all a problem.

How is it an appropriate question to ask if 8 year olds should be killed? Do you expect someone to say "yes"?

I have never thought about youth guilt of this magnitude outside of two questions: What are the ethics of killing youth combatants in war Why are dogs that bite euthanized (do they know what they have done, can they be contained or changed) --- its related... Legally the youth cannot face capital punishment outside of combat. So I don't need to give an opinion on it one way or the other.

Never did I say I support capital punishment for 8-year-olds. You are being completely dishonest and ridiculous here. First, you are conflating moral guilt with legal eligibility for execution. Second, you are twisting my words to your own end. Here is your logic... ...Adults should be able to buy alcohol. 18-year-olds are adults. Therefore, 18-year-olds should be able to buy alcohol. ...God is love. Love is blind. Ray Charles is blind. Therefore, Ray Charles is God. Get it now?

Honestly to understand you have to put your starting belief aside. Don't say the word baby or human. Say cells or fetus. Then accept that a fetus does not have human rights. With this view what becomes of the fetus is dismissed. Certainly not murder. Do you even know science bro? You likely think a fetus is a baby, same as me. Babies are humans. So from that view abortion is the largest genocide in history. That’s the core of the pro-life position... people are calmly ending millions of innocent lives and acting like it isn’t a big deal. Some options... keep repeating to myself that other people genuinely don’t see the fetus as a human with rights, until I can live with the disagreement. Or do something irrational that destroys everything I care about. The second one isn’t actually an option.

Explain it to me please where I was inconsistent as well as how it relates to the topic.

Nothing. Its a gotcha to check for consistency around what it means to be innocent and guilty.

If they are actively fighting as combatants, yes. Sadly, yes.

Whoa. That 6 year old that shot and about killed his teacher, intentionally, with zero remorse, is back in public schooling and lives with his grand father. At least mom was locked up for a bit.

Spell this out for me. What exactly is hypocritical about saying that some 8-year-olds can be guilty?

True... Also the innocent children shouldn’t be killed... Also war is grim... Also the intended outcome of war is not "to kill children." The intended outcome of abortion is to kill the fetus.

On the pro choice side, I assume most folks don't see a fetus as a human with rights. So abortion is the mother's decision to make. And many believe actual people have the right to not be executed, even if they've killed someone. From that view, they are not ending the life of anyone who has rights. Pro choice and Pro life are rational opinions if you understand the underlying core belief. I accept that others don’t believe a fetus has human rights, or that even if it does, the mother’s rights come first. That doesn’t make them a psychopath for holding a pro-choice view. And I’m not anti-woman for believing the fetus has a right to life except when continuing the pregnancy would end the mother’s life.

Fair opinion, yet unrelated to the explanation given for why it is reasonable and pro-life to oppose abortion for the innocent while supporting capital punishment for the guilty. There are no gotchas and no hypocrisy.

People ask how you can support capital punishment and oppose abortion. Pro-life is about protecting the innocent. I think a human has rights from the moment their *life begins, and ending that life on purpose is wrong. A murderer has already killed an innocent person and, by doing that, forfeits the same protection. The pro-life point of the penalty is to keep them from killing again. *To me, life begins at conception... To others, at birth or somewhere in between. This 'life begins' is off topic from understanding 'pro life' and not necessary to discuss here.

Executing the shooter is prolife in protecting the innocent. I’m pro-life and don’t care if it’s streamed or not; livestreaming is not a prolife question. I hope the impact to the curious and the psychopath that watch this is worth the message that America is back. I have a problem with the cost of delaying the execution this long...

Last night there was a middle school football game on the high school field. The other team was the 80s Raiders. They had Bo Jackson and used him whenever they wanted. Son of an NFL player. Six foot, 170 pounds, athletic, and he liked contact. Punted it 60 yards. Punt returns. Kick returns. Defensive end. Slot receiver. A manchild. After several opening plays, the losing team put a kid in the backfield just to block him. First play, the beast lateral-dropped him, shoved him into the ground, and stood over him. The kid got up, stared at him, and walked back to the huddle. The rest of the game that same kid double-legged him, tripped him, held him, and did whatever it took to slow him down. Stood over him a couple times too. I have known that kid his whole life. He is afraid of getting hurt by a baseball. I have never been more surprised than watching him stand up to a giant that no teammate would touch. The kid had 5 offensive penalties in his third-ever tackle football game. Never been prouder of my boy.

Looking at UK data... in 2024, among the minority of CST tracked antisematic cases with an appearance description, Whites were about half of identified offenders (under-represented vs ~80% of the population). People described as Arab or North African were 28% of identified offenders vs ~0.6% of the census “Arab” data and a small North African population. The group is over-represented in the data... ---- UK population shares (2021 Census, England & Wales) https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/populationestimates/datasets/censusbasedstatisticsuk2021 White ~83%, Black ~4%, South Asian ~9%, Arab ~0.6%. Muslims overall are ~6% Community Security Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales and Scotland that publishes Antisemitic Incidents Report each year. 2024 - https://cst.org.uk/data/file/6/1/Antisemitic Incidents Report 2024.1738928091.pdf CST obtained a description of the ethnic appearance of the offender or offenders in 1,241 of the 3,528 antisemitic incidents reported during 2024. Of these, 570 (46%) were described as white – North European; 33 (3%) as white – South European; 121 (10%) as black; 160 (13%) as South Asian; seven (1%) as Southeast Asian; and 350 (28%) as Arab or North African. This breakdown is close to that reported in 2023, but diverges from what is typically reported in years when UK based antisemitism is largely unaffected by events in the Middle East. For example, in 2022, 51% of perpetrators were described as white – North European; 5% as white – South European; 16% as black; 10% as South Asian; less than 1% as Southeast Asian; and 18% as Arab or North African. This demographic shift matches that witnessed during Israel-related conflicts in previous years, when antisemitic incident offenders of North African, Arab or South Asian appearance were more highly represented than usual.

Don't know anything about that guy. It is interesting that he treats stereotyped individuals* fine and exaggerates on the groups. He shouldn't exaggerate numbers and incite anything beyond what the data reveals. * https://www.pressherald.com/2011/01/16/jamaican-joined-lepage-household-as-teen_2011-01-16/

Grok... There is a kernel of geographic truth and a large overstatement on race. What tracks reality Maine sits at the end of well-documented Northeast trafficking corridors. Law enforcement has for years identified source cities and routes: New York (Bronx, Brooklyn), Waterbury and other Connecticut cities, and Massachusetts mill cities such as Lawrence and Lowell. Product moves up I-95 and connecting highways because street prices in rural New England are much higher than in those source markets. That pipeline is real and has contributed to Maine’s overdose deaths. wmtw.com Those deaths are overwhelmingly among White Mainers. Recent state reports show roughly 93–96% of fatal overdose victims identified as White, in line with the state’s population. Fentanyl (mostly Mexican-produced, moving through U.S. distribution networks) now drives most of the lethality. mainedrugdata.org Black Mainers are a tiny share of the population (~1–2%) but a larger share of the most serious drug-trafficking arrests. A Council of State Governments analysis of 2018 data found Black people accounted for 21% of Class A (aggravated trafficking) drug arrests and 15% of Class B trafficking arrests. That is disproportionate. Out-of-state suspects in the higher-volume cases are more likely than local street dealers to be Black or Hispanic. That is the slice LePage was gesturing at. mainebeacon.com What does not hold up The specific numbers he used were wrong. He claimed “90-plus percent” of the photos in his binder of arrested dealers were Black or Hispanic from those out-of-state cities. When the binder was released, contemporaneous reviews found roughly 40% appeared Black or Hispanic and about 60% White; among the opioid/heroin subset it was still a minority, not 90%. 2014 FBI data on drug sale and manufacture arrests in Maine showed Black suspects at 14%. Most people arrested for drug offenses in the state, including trafficking, have been White, and a majority of those listed in his own compilation were Maine residents rather than outsiders. theatlantic.com The “Black people come up the highway and they kill Mainers” line treats a subset of interstate cases as the whole story. Local White dealers, local users who also sell, and the much larger demand side inside Maine account for most of the market. The “D-Money / impregnate a young White girl” remark has no systematic evidence behind it; it is an old racial trope. LePage later said he meant “Maine women” and that the state is 95% White. Bottom line Interstate traffickers from more diverse source cities do operate in Maine, some of those networks are Black or Hispanic, and Black arrest rates for the most serious trafficking charges are higher than population share. That is the factual core. Calling that group “the overwhelming majority” of people “coming in,” “the enemy,” or the primary reason Mainers die of overdoses does not match arrest data, his own binder, or who actually dies. The problem is a high-price destination market plus a fentanyl supply chain, not a racial invasion.

If he heard it and ignored it; 100% agreement.

"It used to be we thought that people who went around correcting other people’s grammar were just plain annoying. Now there’s evidence they are actually ill, suffering from a type of obsessive-compulsive disorder/oppositional defiant disorder (OCD/ODD). Researchers are calling it Grammatical Pedantry Syndrome, or GPS." - https://blogs.illinois.edu/view/25/76120 "You have control over this. Realize that you are trying to fix something that you think is important, but others don’t. It only serves your need for order, but it’s imaginary, inside your head, because nobody appreciates it, or will remember it." - https://www.quora.com/How-do-I-get-rid-of-the-Grammar-pedantry-syndrome

Hee hee hee hoo. Hee heee hee hoo. Breathe. This is autistic level of literalism. The audience is laughing at the joke.

^^^ The Nazi punctuation cult is here ^^^

A face that loves the smell of leather. With hair color that screams their love of baseball. Who obviously can throw a heater. WTFISCNNThinking? Why would any baseball fan click on the video?