Highly evil rhetorical tic among this websites demographic of deliberately eliding the distinction between “is culpable” and “has caused ~real harm~”. You will see someone urge the faintest trace of leniency about some class of nuisances and the response will be “ohhh so you think they don’t cause real harm? Bc they do”. Avalanches and tsunamis also cause real harm, do you want to start putting the water on trial too?

Reason it is evil rather than merely annoying is that it is fully continuous with the characteristic mental disorder of savages who take to advocating and implementing sadistic extensions of the criminal justice apparatus in the United states where previously some degree of mercy had stalled the incursions while convincing themselves this is a pure expression of progressive humanism bc their rhetoric does not align 100% with the ultraconservative lawandorder jagoff who lives sumptuously in their imagination as an anti-idol to fuel their self righteousness and paranoia, a class including but not limited to 1) Californian rainbow-washing shitheads eliminating diminished capacity as a legal category in some fit of misbegotten martyr-cultism around Harvey milk ii) radfem vampires salivating at the thought of putting a 6yo to the chair and c) every single lib frenzy about some judges undue clemency towards a white boy who makes substantial numbers of the pitchfork wielding mob personally uncomfortable