• Spedwell@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Well the general principle is that you can’t be punished for behavior that was legal when you did it. Otherwise you open the door to “doing X is illegal now” and then locking everyone who was documented doing X in the last several years.

    Which maybe sounds nice when it’s destroying the climate… but it’s less nice when it’s gay marriage, alcohol consumption, owning X book, etc.

    • R0cket_M00se@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Which maybe sounds nice when it’s destroying the climate… but it’s less nice when it’s gay marriage, alcohol consumption, owning X book, etc.

      Funny how quickly people forget that they’re supporting authoritarianism just because it happens to line up with their belief system in one instance.