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Apply this to tenant applications too
(lemmy.world)
A community for discussing and documenting the second great housing bubble.
Hey, listen, I'm all for not punishing people and instead letting the victim take vengeance as they deem appropriate. It doesn't warm my heart that the drunk driver that ran over my grandma got 5 years parole, I'd much rather carve out various parts of the fucker, cook them, make him eat them, and then force him to guess what part he ate. But violence is a state-controlled monopoly, and the state gets pissy when others realize monopolies are destroying the market and bring only downsides to us regular buyers.
Also, some shithead said at some point "an eye for an eye will leave the whole world blind" without realizing that once we finish the initial "eye for an eye" scenario justice has been met and we don't need to continue ad infinitum, and for some reason a bunch of cretins who want to hold onto their eyes agreed with him and now Hammurabi would shit upon our flawed society and its insane rules.
As an aside, I was looking into Hammurabi's code of laws while writing this, and the man seems to have been both just and metal as fuck. Here are some snippets I'd prefer to live my life by:
Like, fuck yeah - fuck around, find out.
More of the same, yes please.
Pay your insurance premium? No thanks, I don't need it, it's included in THE FUCKING LAW.
Great. Fuck civil court where the builder's army of lawyers can bully my $5/h law student cause that's all I can afford while also rebuilding my house
Fair. Why the fuck are you next to the goddamn ox, dipshit?
Yeah maybe some of them need some work, but fuck if most aren't perfectly reasonable.