Asklemmy

43936 readers

689 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy 🔍

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

Open-ended question
Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

Lemmyverse: community search
sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
[email protected]: a community for finding communities

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_[email protected]~

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

How does the profanity filter work? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

31 comments fedilink hide all child comments

I'm on lemmy.ml but as I'm French, I was reading this comment and was surprised to see removed instead of the french word for "late".

Is there anything I can do on my end or is it a server setting and I should move to a French one?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

When have you seen calls for murder?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't think a lot of people are using the "guillotine landlords" imagery ironically.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

are executions murder, though?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

I personally believe so, at least. I guess whether the murder can be justified or not is a separate question.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I mean, yes? Although generally speaking, the word execution is reserved for cases where they've been deemed to deserve it.

For example, most of the executions ordered during the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution were simply murders of people who were even suspected of dissent.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Specifically, it's when it's sanctioned through the legal system (as opposed to murders, including state-sanctioned but extra-judicial killings)

So I think executions are not murder by definition