Is the difference simply that they said they didn't mean it?
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First degree murder requires that you intend to kill someone, right? And Mr. Nichols is saying that if they really intended genocide, they would have done it quickly. And I'm saying if you could say "I didn't really intend to kill that guy because I could have done it faster," intent becomes fake
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In most legal situations where intent is relevant, doing certain things that will obviously lead to a certain outcome is enough to establish intent
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Hey now, I am a lawyer, I didn't say intent doesn't matter, I said if you could say there was no intent because you, say, starved someone to death instead of shooting them, people would simply do that and say they didn't intend to kill someone - so I asked you if genocide is different!
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If we applied this standard to intent for say, first degree murder, no one would ever be convicted of first degree murder. Is the standard for intent in a genocide case that different?
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I think you're using a definition of intent that only attaches once the genocide is complete, right? Like as long as they haven't killed everyone and they say that that's not what they're trying to do, then then you'll believe there's no intent?
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I'm not sure that follows, adding working citizens to a population is generally a boon to a welfare state?
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Sometimes I check in on what she's doing and it's almost always just finding the worst examples of the left to hold up against the best examples of the right in order to explain why she's Right, Actually.
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Take a pikachur calendar and if necessary, drive your pidgeotto-mobile to the nearest polling place to restore democracy
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If you possess a basic facility in any area, you can figure out so much as you go, but if you don't, you're much more susceptible to magical thinking