• TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Genocide requires intent. Whereas this alien just had a fleeting moment of anger at the time of his wife being murdered.

    Can he really be tried for genocide? It’s hard to say, but I’d say not. We all have dark intrusive thoughts, and in this instance it had disastrous consequences.

    It’s all moot anyway. If you have no means or intention to enforce a law, does it really exist?

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        1 year ago

        We’re talking thinking something, at a moment of extreme stress and anger, after everybody on the planet he lived on was killed, including his wife.

        We aren’t talking someone physically doing something.

        You’ve never had any intrusive thought, ever? Can you affirm that you wouldn’t have an angry thought even if everybody on Earth was murdered, including loved ones?

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      1 year ago

      The heat-of-passion is something to argue to mitigate culpability. Yes, he killed an entire species, and wasn’t exactly justified, but his emotions and passions were inflamed by the aliens murdering his wife making his actions involuntary.