• Micromot@feddit.org
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    2 days ago

    He still commited a crime which makes him a criminal which is just a fact and has nothing to do with the crime being justified

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      What makes someone “criminal” as a quality? Breaking the law? Killing people? Are all health insurance workers criminals too?

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        Commiting a crime makes you a criminal, so if you break a law you are a criminal. And if the decisions of health insurance workers are also breaking laws they are criminals too.

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          Then if you have ever gone faster than the speed limit, you are a criminal. That makes most people in the developed world criminals.

          That aside, the point is that naming someone a criminal has moralistic baggage, and by saying that anyone that breaks laws is a criminal thus immoral, you imply all laws are inherently moral.