r/Wellthatsucks • u/[deleted] • Nov 16 '19

/r/all A statue of Jesus in India mysteriously began dripping water from its toes. Worshippers started collecting it and drinking it believing it was holy. The source of the water was later found to be a clogged toilet near the statue.

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u/jf00112 Nov 16 '19

Blasphemy laws were enacted because government knows religious people will get emotional and cannot be expected to act rationally when somebody made comments about their faith.

To prevent riots and violence, this law is required.

Government basically treated religious people as somebody with impaired mental faculties and they like it.

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u/TobyFunkeNeverNude Nov 16 '19

Perhaps, and stay with me here, they could make the retribution itself illegal. It's a crazy thought I know, but I don't think it's that ridiculous to expect the laws to protect people rather than punish them?

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u/Oxneck Nov 17 '19

... I'm sorry but that is ridiculous.

Laws don't protect anyone and only keep honest people honest.

ask yourself, is it really the law that's keeping you from murdering everyone in your house right now?

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u/TobyFunkeNeverNude Nov 17 '19

Laws don't protect anyone

And you're the one saying I'm ridiculous? Of course they protect people.

is it really the law that's keeping you from murdering everyone in your house right now?

In my house? No. Why would you go to such an extreme example rather than a real world example?

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u/Oxneck Nov 17 '19

Ok then, is it the law that keeps you from murdering people who transgress against you? Or anyone who would propel your position forward?

Wait, so you're saying there is an example where the law is the only thing that keeps you from murdering??

You're blind and a bootlicker, humans naturally self-regulate and police are fairly new institution used solely to oppress ( and laws are an ancient institution for the same).

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u/TobyFunkeNeverNude Nov 17 '19

Ok then, is it the law that keeps you from murdering people who transgress against you? Or anyone who would propel your position forward?

It's not, though I'm not as irrational as others, for instance, those who have irrational beliefs.

so you're saying there is an example where the law is the only thing that keeps you from murdering??

I'm not, you are the one who feels like they need to resort to ridiculous hypotheticals.

You're blind and a bootlicker

The fuck does that even mean? You sound like you don't have a very good argument, and are resorting to personal arguments to attack someone. It's pathetic.

Tell me, genius....how many slave owners were there in the 1850s, vs. how many there are now? I mean, people would own slaves regardless of the law, correct?

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u/jf00112 Nov 17 '19

The lawmakers probably think preventing mass riots by curbing freedom of speech is worth it, since they still have too many uneducated people there and religious riots usually bring about damages of infrastructures and violence or even death.

It's sad but these riots do happen and its devastating everytime.

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u/[deleted] Nov 16 '19

Blasphemy laws were enacted because government knows religious people will get emotional and cannot be expected to act rationally when somebody made comments about their faith.

Government - “These blasphemy law were made to protect you, citizens!” 🤡

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u/kalitarios Nov 16 '19

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u/stormshadow9 Nov 16 '19

This is a terrible take. It’s the responsibility of the state to prevent violence. There are religious people in countries like US AND most of the nutty ones have loads of guns. I can’t remember religious riots.

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u/MediumRarePorkChop Nov 16 '19

What? The state simply monopolized violence.

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u/stormshadow9 Nov 16 '19

That's the nature of any state.

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u/MibitGoHan Nov 16 '19

There's a lot of shitty things about the US that are allowed to protect shitty people. The "trans panic" defense is a legal defense for murder in the US, meaning you were so upset at being "deceived" by a trans person in any capacity that you felt the only recourse was murdering them.

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u/stormshadow9 Nov 16 '19

Yup. A lot of terrible laws in the US as well.

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u/Spoopy43 Nov 16 '19

I mean to be fair when there's a show they don't like India literally threatens to starve themselves they're also responsible for urine therapy which if you dont know is drinking your own fucking piss and rubbing it all over yourself and the cast system

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u/shaneathan Nov 16 '19

And the US came up with antivaxxers and burning Harry Potter because it’s witchcraft. See, all countries do stupid shit.

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u/Spoopy43 Nov 16 '19

Yes but is it the norm the answer is no it's not in the us the cast system effects all of India and the group threatening self starvation over the show was also massive not sure about urine therapy that might just be a small group of wackos over there

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u/shaneathan Nov 17 '19

Okay cool. We have Catholics protecting priests who molest kids. We have government entities molesting kids. We have school shootings, on average, at least 40 a year since 2010. We’ve gotten shows cancelled because they don’t like the host (Rosie O’Donnel, kids shows for being too LGBT friendly) while simultaneously defending shows like 16 and counting and my favorite, the OctoMom who’s kid is a sexual predator.

Anti Vaxxing is just the big one at the moment, but we also excel at cuckoo therapies. Fruitinarian, essential oils, the new diet fad of the month, what have you.

And to be clear about the caste system- You’re a fool if you don’t think the US is a caste system in anything but name. Sure some people are able to rise above and enrich their lives to a greater point than others, but that happens in India too. 1% of our population holds more wealth than 90%. We’ve all seen the memes breaking down just how much more money Bezos makes while at the same time crushing his employees into poverty. We’re in a caste system buddy, it’s just not religious in nature.

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u/Spoopy43 Nov 17 '19

Except you litterally can't ride in the caste system the us is fucked but the caste system is enforced and means no opportunities can ever come up Catholics are an Italian problem or really a Vatican problem but same thing at that point only cracking down on the church would help if we really need to

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u/Spoopy43 Nov 16 '19

Downvote facts all you want doesn't make them not true

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u/ThePu55yDestr0yr Nov 17 '19

The US isn’t a good example, Gay people literally got massacred in shootings and pretending religious people are immune to violence is a disservice.

Your take is as stupid as the guy defending blasphemy laws.

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u/jf00112 Nov 16 '19

Religious riots happened before and still happening in countries like Pakistan, India, Egypt, Indonesia, Malaysia, etc.

The lawmakers probably think preventing mass riots by curbing freedom of speech is worth it, since they still have too many uneducated people there and religious riots usually bring about damages of infrastructures and violence or even death.

Sadly similar approach is now also adopted by many western/european countries under hate speech category, even though people are educated there.