• Wrench@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Yes, it matters why. Because if it’s arbitrary, they can arrest anyone they feel like at any time.

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      10 months ago

      Sorry, let me be more clear: does it matter which crime he’s arrested for, as long as he’s put in jail for at least one of them?

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        10 months ago

        Yes. It matters. That’s my point.

        You don’t want law enforcement having access to arbitrary laws that they selectively enforce to achieve imprisonment, because they can selectively enforce them for their own agenda, which may not be to fight Nazis in the future.

        We need laws to imprison hate speech specifically.