These people obviously have unquestionable control over everything by wealth and influence. People underneath them suffer under their ‘leadership’ whether it is working unhealthy hours for shit pay to working in unsafe environments where they’re subjected to abuse or harm.

Yet there are pockets of people, where if you express the desire of these kinds of people who lead to die, will defend them because reasons. The top reason being that they don’t like the idea of life being taken away. However, the way I see it is that, if you are in high positions and anybody suffers by a big number because you’re a poor leader or so. I think the idea of jail or any justice imposed sentence is beyond them.

Lots of people forget because it’s been 5 years, but Trump allowed 350,000 americans to die under a mishandled pandemic. Was the pandemic going to take lots of lives anyways? Yes, but I argue that it could’ve been negated and handled better. But no, that’s not what we saw happen.

And it is because of that kind of gross example, I wish death on Trump everyday, anyday.

And people argue “oh, he should be in jail to think about his crimes and the law will prevail” blah blah. People have been clamoring for jail time for lots of powerful people, only to find that very few of them do. To them, time is like money, they’re too busy counting how many days they have left before they’re back out and will attempt to re-capture their influence and wealth to resume what they did before again.

So I feel that by sentencing these people to death, we are taking away immediately, what enjoyment they have, in spending making hundreds to thousands to even millions of people suffer and having their lives be worse off.

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    I don’t wish anyone to die as a rule.

    Now at any rate [Gollum] is as bad as an Orc, and just an enemy. He deserves death.’

    ‘Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement.

    The Fellowship of the Ring

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      Even exceptions require due diligence.

      Should you meet a man of terrible crimes,

      do not draw your sword, do not force him to draw.

      Do not cut, do not let him cut.

      Do not kill and do not be killed.

      Teach him kindly and lead him to be a better man. Only if he will not be led, cut him down with a regretful stroke and send him to Buddha.

      • Hayashizaki Jinsuke Shigenobu
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        Forgive my unsolicited advice. Perhaps you know this already but if you want the blockquote to be unbroken you have to put a > on the blank lines as well.

        > This is a paragraph.
        >
        > And this is another paragraph.
        

        This is a paragraph.

        And this is another paragraph.

        The markdown parser also treats a hyphen plus space at the start of the line as a bullet. If you want an en dash you use two hyphens. Three gets you an em dash.

        --Some famous quotable guy
        

        –Some famous quotable guy

        I'm not a robot---
        

        I’m not a robot—

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          Teach him kindly and lead him to be a better man. Only if he will not be led, cut him down with a regretful stroke and send him to Buddha.

          Forgive my unsolicited advice. Perhaps you know this already but if you want the blockquote…

          Just for entertainment, I’m going to assume your post was a Markdown equivalent of “teaching kindly”