Torture works! Everyone being tortured confesses! It rocks! What? Incorrect confessions? Why would they lie if they’re innocent? And still, we’ve proven they’re liars… stands to reason they’re not that innocent, don’t you think?
Asides
Assumo
If you assume too many things you risk turning into a big, fat assumo!
Bully for president
Do you remember how your parents told you the kids that gave you wedgies and pushed your head into the toilet and flushed wouldn’t amount to much when they grew up? What perspective do we have on that now that Donald Trump is US president?
Lie for a living
I lie for a living, and nobody believes me, and now I’m telling the truth and they still don’t believe me! I hate people!
Human problemsolving
Human problem solving:
- We use logic,
- however, if we can’t use logic, we use emotions,
- and, if we can’t use emotions, we use violence,
- and, if we can’t use violence, we convince ourselves violence is wrong… Which takes us back to step 1.
Class trip to the Coca-Cola factory.
Class trip to the Coca-Cola factory. I hope there’s no pop quiz.
Who cares about the dog?
“I read the manuscript…”
“And?”
“I was impressed… you managed to kill almost all major characters…”
“Yeah! I pray at the altar of the great Martin.”
“I bet… You even killed the dog…”
“Sure! I mean who cares about the mutt, am I right or am I?”
“You do realize this is supposed to be the first episode of the reboot of Lassie, right?”
It may not have happened for real
It may not have happened for real, but it has happened and that’s bad enough.
Lessons Learned from Snowden
Lessons Learned from Snowden:
Of course, the government will use existing technologies as far as possible — within, or outside of the law.
We would never have…
Perhaps you’ve seen a discussion about how justice was performed in the old days, where someone says “we would never have done it like that” or “if it had been today, that case wouldn’t even have gone to court.”
The latest such discussion I came across was on the execution of Joe Hill :
Like many historians, Gibbs M. Smith, author of a Hill biography, said the trial was unfair. “Under today’s laws of evidence, he never would have been convicted and executed,” Mr. Smith said.
Then it hit me. If we say these things today about things that happened a century ago. People a century from now will most definitely say the same about things we’re doing today.
And that’s why I will never ever under any circumstance believe in the death penalty.
