• Flying Squid
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    377 months ago

    Basically, this just encourages priests to silence their victims.

    • @cmbabul
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      57 months ago

      If someone besides elon or one of his sociopathic peers put together a generation starship to colonize a new galaxy I’d sign up in a second

      • @[email protected]
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        67 months ago

        We just have to convince a significant number of “rabble rousers” to sign up for a colony ship even if it is Elon’s, then riot and overthrown the colonial authorities once we’re far enough away he can’t readily send reinforcements.

        • FuglyDuck
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          57 months ago

          I’d much rather just tell the fruitcakes to go with Elon and the others.

          Then we can start cleaning the place up

          • @[email protected]
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            17 months ago

            Yeah, that would be nice. Unfortunately we have centuries of precedent that the owner class won’t abandon something until they’ve wrong all profitability from it, some point after wringing any qualities of goodness from it perverting the whole of it to perverse profitability.

            In order to be free revolting will be necessary, weather that be here or somewhere else.

      • FuglyDuck
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        57 months ago

        So… Mormons are fine?

  • @JayObey711
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    147 months ago

    Yea I mean do crimes not expire in the U.S.?

    • @[email protected]
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      127 months ago

      Depends on the crime. You’ll find most places have a statute of limitations only on certain crimes while other crimes (usually ones that cause grievous harm) don’t.

    • @[email protected]
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      7 months ago

      If they’re by the powerful: They do, and almost immediately after committing them. Corruption is legal here.

      • @Noodle07
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        17 months ago

        Land of the free (for a price)

  • @LovingHippieCat
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    117 months ago

    If priests weren’t allowed to sexually abuse minors then they wouldn’t be priests!

  • @Mango
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    117 months ago

    Statute of limitations is still a thing.

    • @[email protected]
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      137 months ago

      I mean sure, but whether or not you’re a member of a club should have exactly not a damn thing to do with it.

      • Liz
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        87 months ago

        I haven’t looked into this case. Are they actually making a specific ruling regarding priests, or is it just that this case involved priests? I could easily see headlines claiming the ruling to be more specific than it actually is, for clickbait reasons.

        • zout
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          It isn’t that specific. The supreme court ruled that because it is hard to build a defence after so much time has passed, it is against the constitution to allow people to sue someone after the statute of limitations has passed. Failing to recognize it is even harder to prove you’re a victim after such long time has passed.

      • @Mango
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        17 months ago

        Agreed

    • Flying Squid
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      107 months ago

      There is no statute of limitations on murder. There should also not be one on sexual assault, especially not when a child is assaulted.

      • @Mango
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        27 months ago

        I actually didn’t know that!

    • FuglyDuck
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      There doesn’t appear to be A limitation for sexual assault of children. It might be lumped in with “personal injury” for one year, though.

      Criminally, it’s 30 years starting when the victim is 18.

      • @Mango
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        17 months ago

        RIP Priests.

        I think it should definitely be shorter than that though just for practicality’s sake. I didn’t think it’s likely to prove it disprove anything after so much time.

        • FuglyDuck
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          17 months ago

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        • FuglyDuck
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          I’m okay if they don’t rest in peace.

          There’s reasons to extend it, actually. Even if prosecution is harder, victims rarely come forward in otherwise “reasonable” time frames.

          Especially when the victims are children who may not know what’s happening to them is even wrong.

  • @[email protected]
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    17 months ago

    Usually you’re supposed to explain suggestions for other means of recourse for the victims.