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shp0ngle | 1 year ago

Note that she got a death sentence for fraud. It's... rough. (In my opinion.)

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spxneo|1 year ago

Statements like this ignore the victims:

- 3% of vietnam's GDP

- Roughly the equivalent of an entire city losing their livelihood to one person

- The trauma and ruin people around the victims will feel

- Orphaned children, suicides, intragenerational trauma that will last for many rebirths.

It's the same cavalier attitude I see towards victims of SBF on this forum. "Its their fault", "they were asking for it".

You have compassion for the perpetrator but not the victims who are dead and are going to end up dead.

I only pray that you will not experience the pain of being manipulated and scammed. It's truly awful because I experienced it.

I know some religions/SF bay cults try to justify it but at the end of the day its the lapse in responsibility and compassion, the same disregard for others but your own.

water-data-dude|1 year ago

I recognize that they’ve done a LOT of harm, but death is a harsh punishment under almost any circumstances. The death penalty seems like one of those ideological issues where people fall on one side or the other, and they pretty much stay on that side.

My perspective is: if the point is to dissuade people from committing crimes like this, it seems like a lengthy prison sentence would achieve the same thing. The harm has already been done, and killing them doesn’t fix anything. Death is just so damn final.

seanmcdirmid|1 year ago

It could have also been score settling, and her corruption (because they are all corrupt) was magnified to slaughter a chicken to scare the monkeys, so to speak.

bastawhiz|1 year ago

How many percentage points of an entire country's economy would you say you need to steal before it's deserving of the highest form of punishment?

Biganon|1 year ago

That's not the point

Death should not be the highest form of punishment

You think it should? Then why stop there? What about death, but after weeks of gruesome torture? How many percentage points of an entire country's economy should warrant that?