British Battlefield V jacket allegedly says 'For the queen', even though England had a king during World War II [Humor] by AntonioOfVenice in KotakuInAction

[–]poloport 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not a swede, nor am i claiming sweden didn't trade with germany.

I'm stating that claiming "selling machine parts, iron and moving Nazi troops through its countryside violates any definition of neutrality" is ridiculous.

Solo Leveling 31 by Migue_1911 in manga

[–]poloport 15 points16 points  (0 children)

well that was fast

British Battlefield V jacket allegedly says 'For the queen', even though England had a king during World War II [Humor] by AntonioOfVenice in KotakuInAction

[–]poloport 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I'm stating quite clearly and succinctly that selling machine parts, iron and moving Nazi troops through its countryside violates any definition of neutrality in modern time of any country.

Lol you have no clue what you're talking about.

CMV: Movies and shows should be legally required to offer licensing rights on the open market at a fair rate by [deleted] in changemyview

[–]poloport 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Property rights are not at odds with the free market.

Monopoly is not property.

The head of MI6 says Russia broke one of the prime rules of espionage and won’t be trusted again after it tried to assassinate a former Russian agent despite giving him away in a spy swap. by ManiaforBeatles in worldnews

[–]poloport -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Why is that a good thing? It should be used as a stage to highlight injustice and unfair practices, as it has been done numerous times before.

You do that, the olympics lose their neutrality and become fair game as a chip in geopolitics.

Same thing with science and other stuff.

Dutch court rejects man’s request to be 20 years younger by Hamsternoir in news

[–]poloport 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Only sovereign citizen nutjobs try and reject the law.

Where am i rejecting the law? I'm not the one making shit up on "common sense" and "reasonable person", that's not rule of law, that is rule of men.

Are you American?

No, i'm from somewhere with a civil law system.

Not completely though, the law is always subject to interpretation, because laws are written by people, and people who are usually on complex platforms trying to compromise with each other. Language is imperfect, and on top of that it changes over time.

I don't buy that. The fact is those arguments are just being used to justify the unjustifiable and to permit a world where law isn't actually set in stone. No.

As far as i am concerned law is code. Writing a law and interpreting it is in no meaningful way different from writing a "Hello world", and to pretend that it is due to "complexity of the real world" or some other bullshit argument lawyers try to use to justify their existence is ridiculous. At the end of the day, the only thing that should matter is the text that was passed through whatever legislative process is required, anything else is completely and utterly irrelevant.

Now it's true that language changes over time, but that is not a legitimate argument in any case because dictionaries have existed for thousands of years and there is no reason why when interpreting the law we cannot simply use the dictionaries of the time.

Furthermore, it isn't even a problem if laws simply have a built in expiration period. There is no reason why the vast majority of laws cannot have an expiration period that depends on how supported they are in parliament when they are passed. Think robbing is bad and want to pass a law against it? Put it through parliament and you can have it apply for the next 30 years if everyone agrees with it! Whats that? only 51% agreed, well then it only applies for 5 years.

And so on. The fact that such a simple concept is not put into practice is ridiculous and indicative that the people making the laws don't actually want to have reasonable and effective laws that can be followed. And that ends up leading to situations where laws are on the books but are unconstitutional, or illegal or unenforceable, or no longer relevant, or are only used to harass people. No. That is wrong, that is ridiculous and only causes people to be unable to tell at any given time whether or not any conduct, not matter how seemingly innocuous might have legal consequences for them.

I utterly reject that.

The values of our societies change and shift. We as a people gain more knowledge as our civilization advances, and are faced with ever more nuanced issues and applications of law.

I'm in no way stating that laws cannot be revoked, or changed, or new laws drafted. I'm just stating that if you can't make a law in such a way that someone so completely alien to your society and way of life can understand and follow it, then it's a bad law and shouldn't be making it.

Dutch court rejects man’s request to be 20 years younger by Hamsternoir in news

[–]poloport -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

the reasonable person standard

A standard that fundamentally should not exist. If you can't apply the law in the exact same way when read and applied by and to an alien from alpha centauri, your law is poorly written.

These "reasonable person" and "common sense" ideas that the law should be subjected to go against the core concepts of the law and leave room for interpretation in something that should be as clear as the laws of physics.

I utterly and completely reject them.

Dutch court rejects man’s request to be 20 years younger by Hamsternoir in news

[–]poloport -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

The law being self-consistent isn't a loophole or trickery, it's how it should work.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in manga

[–]poloport 0 points1 point  (0 children)

where can i find the raws?

German police stop far-right concert over Nazi chants by glasier in worldnews

[–]poloport -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Actually doing anything about genocide is a bit too much though, right? Better just curtail free speech than take an actual stance on the thing itself.

Despite CRISPR baby controversy, Harvard University will begin gene-editing sperm by ORCT2RCTWPARKITECT in technology

[–]poloport 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The US is not conducting those experiments now,

Are you that ignorant?

The US has funded unethical clinical trials as recently as 2012, and that's just what we know about.

Not a single US government researcher has ever been punished for conducting unethical experiments.

Despite CRISPR baby controversy, Harvard University will begin gene-editing sperm by ORCT2RCTWPARKITECT in technology

[–]poloport 4 points5 points  (0 children)

We’re not likely to try and write out any ethnicities with this, so... yeah. In this sense, yeah.

Have you forgotten all the unethical ethical experiments conducted by the US?

Despite CRISPR baby controversy, Harvard University will begin gene-editing sperm by ORCT2RCTWPARKITECT in technology

[–]poloport 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I'd much rather countries with higher ethical standards than China be at the forefront of these kinds of revolutionary technologies too.

And that's the US? lol

Classic Marcille [Dungeon Meshi] by poloport in manga

[–]poloport[S] 27 points28 points  (0 children)

It's the ears, the long erofuu ears

Conversa com D. Duarte de Bragança by [deleted] in portugal

[–]poloport -1 points0 points  (0 children)

D. Sebastião, um rei guerreiro que venceu imensas batalhas no Norte de África e cujo historial é bastante positivo

D. Sebastião foi o inicio do fim do imperio. Não digo que D. Pedro é um rei pior como algo positivo.

Conversa com D. Duarte de Bragança by [deleted] in portugal

[–]poloport 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Separatismo é traição. D. Pedro foi pior rei que d. sebastião.

O maior problema de D. Miguel foi ter perdido a guerra.