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Amazon accuses customer of racism & shuts down their smart home!
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PlainName:
Might it be like risk compensation? Maybe we have a subconscious 'crime' quota that needs to be maintained!
james_s:

--- Quote from: Zero999 on June 29, 2023, 11:28:43 am ---There's nothing wrong with hate. It's a perfectly normal human emotion. A good number of crimes are motivated by hate. I don't see why the punishment should be any different, whether the motive is greed, hate or lust. Perhaps the punishment could be lighter if it was accidental i.e. carelessness.

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Typically the punishment is lighter if it's accidental. Negligent homicide for example is a much lighter charge than murder, it can be used when somebody does something careless that results in the death of another person.

I agree there is no need to outlaw hate, there's no way that can work anyway, you can't prevent a person from hating something/somebody, all you can do is make them keep it in their own head. Trying to force someone to change their view or opinion never works as intended, it only reinforces it.
james_s:

--- Quote from: Zero999 on June 29, 2023, 02:12:44 pm ---I've noticed as society has become progressively safer, the bar to what constitutes harm has been lowered.

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That's expected and an innate component of human psychology. Virtually everything is relative, just as your eyes will adjust to ambient light levels the rest of our senses will adjust to surroundings. A person that grew up in a war torn 3rd would nation would probably feel safe in the worst parts of Philadelphia or Detroit, at least for a while. When you eliminate the biggest problem, something else becomes the biggest problem.
james_s:

--- Quote from: PlainName on June 29, 2023, 11:39:10 am ---We are not talking, say, burning someone's car or nicking their garden gnomes, but calling them names on twitter and the like. Or 'maliciously displaying' golliwogs. Thus the hate is the crime; it's not a motivation or aggravation of some other crime.

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Destroying or stealing someone's property is a crime, it inflicts direct harm and deprives them of something they have worked for. Calling someone names on Twitter is not a crime, at least not in any reasonable society. Remember "sticks and stones will break my bones but words will never hurt me"?Words can do no harm unless you let them. Especially in the case of online situations it is so incredibly easy to simply ignore something.
gnuarm:

--- Quote from: james_s on June 25, 2023, 06:58:27 pm ---
--- Quote from: gnuarm on June 25, 2023, 11:43:22 am ---I've never been an Amazon fan.  They would never notice my absence.  Maybe I should buy a bunch of stuff, then cancel my account.  Make them sorry I left.

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They won't notice even then, the entire process would be handled by mostly automated systems, you'd be just another drop in the bucket of overall statistical data.

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I guess I should have added a smiley.  ;-)
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