How about the case of Tiny Doo ? Sentenced to life in prison… because of his lyrics and album cover art.
No. Seriously.
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Holy shit. Seriously?
In court Deputy District Attorney Anthony Campagna pointed to the gun on No Safety’s cover. “We’re not just talking about an album of anything, of love songs,”
How the hell do these people sleep at night?
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Once you’ve decided you’re persecuting the right people, it ceases to be persecution.
Casuistry dates from Aristotle (384–322 BC), yet the peak of casuistry was from 1550 to 1650, when the Society of Jesus used case-based reasoning, particularly in administering the Sacrament of Penance (or "confession"). The term became pejorative following Blaise Pascal's attack on the misuse of the method in his Provincial Letters (1656–57). The French mathematician, religious philosopher and Jansenist sympathiser attacked priests who used casuistic reasoning in confession to pacify wealt The 2...
The rest of the letters are mainly an attack on Jesuit casuistry. The Fifth Letter , published in a hurry after a police search in Jansenist-friendly publishing houses, is particularly dedicated to criticisms against the Jesuits' doctrine of moral probabilism, according to which one could adopt a "probable opinion", that is, an opinion made plausible by the authority of a theologian, even if it was less probable than another opinion – especially concerning what conduct ought to be followed, the n...
Yeah, if you’re cool with persecuting people, I suppose the sky is the inverse of the limit!
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