Quilotoa@lemmy.ca to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 21 days agoTIL that Canada has an Apology Act which states that saying "sorry" is not an admission of guilt.www.canadianlawyermag.comexternal-linkmessage-square61fedilinkarrow-up1693arrow-down16
arrow-up1687arrow-down1external-linkTIL that Canada has an Apology Act which states that saying "sorry" is not an admission of guilt.www.canadianlawyermag.comQuilotoa@lemmy.ca to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 21 days agomessage-square61fedilink
minus-squareHugeNerd@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down13·20 days agoSo I can pummel a home invader while saying sorry and I’m OK?
minus-squarePeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up27·20 days agoNot admitting guilt doesn’t make you not guilty
minus-squareWolf@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·20 days agoAre Canadians not allowed to pummel home invaders? Sorry
minus-squaredoingthestuff@lemy.lollinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·20 days agoThey’re not. Self defense is illegal. The law requires you say, 'Thank you sir, may I have another?" whenever attacked.
minus-squarePeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·19 days agoApologizing doesn’t affect their guilt or lack thereof. Canadians are allowed self defense within reason
minus-squareJhex@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·20 days agoNo, it just avoids the typical Murican scene where a person can’t even say they feel sorry for others as that may land them on the shitty end of a lawsuit
minus-squareouthouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·20 days agoBut how will you have justice if you dont let people withthe means to access the apparatus of dtate violence use it to lash out at random strangers?
minus-squareJerkface (any/all)@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·20 days agoStill can’t stab him while he lies helpless on the ground.
minus-squareHugeNerd@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·19 days agoI have to wait for me to be stabbed on the ground? Sorry!
minus-squareJerkface (any/all)@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·19 days agoLike you know you’re making bad faith arguments, right? Can we at least establish that before trying to proceed in some manner?
So I can pummel a home invader while saying sorry and I’m OK?
Not admitting guilt doesn’t make you not guilty
Are Canadians not allowed to pummel home invaders?
Sorry
They’re not. Self defense is illegal. The law requires you say, 'Thank you sir, may I have another?" whenever attacked.
Apologizing doesn’t affect their guilt or lack thereof.
Canadians are allowed self defense within reason
No, it just avoids the typical Murican scene where a person can’t even say they feel sorry for others as that may land them on the shitty end of a lawsuit
But how will you have justice if you dont let people withthe means to access the apparatus of dtate violence use it to lash out at random strangers?
Still can’t stab him while he lies helpless on the ground.
I have to wait for me to be stabbed on the ground? Sorry!
Like you know you’re making bad faith arguments, right? Can we at least establish that before trying to proceed in some manner?
sayeth jerkface