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PhasmaFelis on Aug 2, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Canadian cable companies interrogate, search Montr...

Yeah, because righteous revenge works so well for maintaining a civil society.

DarkKomunalec on Aug 3, 2017 [–]

I'm not saying it would work well, I'm saying it would be justified.

And I wouldn't call what happened here 'civil' - at best, the civility was one-sided: they get to raid his home, hold him captive, and force him to answer, but he doesn't get to do anything.

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