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[-] BackOnMyBS@lemmy.world 20 points 10 months ago

you dont know what that guy has done. maybe he's killed workers himself.

[-] rudyharrelson@kbin.social 11 points 10 months ago

Dunno if we should justify murder by violent mobs by speculating that the person might've deserved it.

[-] BackOnMyBS@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago

I agree with you, but I also understand the French people taking King Louis and Marie Antoinette to the guillotine. Just saying, the situation there might be so intense and oppressive, that the killing could at least be understood even if not just. We just don't know enough :/

[-] rudyharrelson@kbin.social 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I agree the situation is oppressive and untenable, but the plant manager isn't the same as a King. We don't know if the plant manager had the actual power to fix anything, given the corruption and embezzling going on behind the scenes. A King is the top of the pyramid, this guy wasn't necessarily, so I don't condone his murder based on pure speculation. The French people didn't have to speculate that the King and Queen were directly responsible for the peoples' misery and oppression.

We just don't know enough.

I would say that's a good reason not to condone mob violence, not a reason to support it.

[-] Mango@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Why not? You're speculating for the inverse stance.

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