Maybe this is getting too philosophical (was: Debian adds LoongArch support)

Posted Aug 17, 2023 19:00 UTC (Thu) by roc (subscriber, #30627)
In reply to: Maybe this is getting too philosophical (was: Debian adds LoongArch support) by farnz
Parent article: Debian adds LoongArch support

> you're happy for your state to imprison people for very long periods of time because they have a different political opinion to you (e.g. that individuals taking certain drugs for recreational purposes is fine),

This is sleight-of-hand. Those people are imprisoned because people voted (indirectly) to make drug-taking a crime. They're not imprisoned for the opinion that "taking certain drugs for recreational purposes is fine"; that is not a crime, in the USA at least, and very large numbers of people hold that opinion and none of them are ever charged on that basis.