Now, yes. 15+ years ago, no.

The regulations requiring returns were amazing and necessary — and not just to prevent scams (which were super common).

10 years is riiiiight around when the regulations came out and you could return games.

As someone who was using Steam 15 years ago, reading comments like this feels like entering the twilight zone.

Does no one remember Steam selling broken games you couldn’t return? Removing games from your library arbitrarily or any of the other shady shit they pulled before the EU and Australia rolled out regulations to stop them? The only reason Steam treats customers with a modicum of respect is that it is legally required to do so.

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To be fair, any sapient creature would find it pretty upsetting to be among most humans.

Relevant, since Frank Herbert was a rabid conservative.

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Did you know the author of Dune is said to have read almost as many books as he has written?

Our whole civilization is a fundamentally asymptotic project. The same way that artists, scholars, and athletes are never satisfied. It’s the human condition.

That said, your claim that

morality has no place in a justice system

is such a basic misunderstanding of the entire point of human civilization, I’d be curious to hear what you think we’re doing when we debate and pass laws.

This is like saying you’re a picky eater who enjoys cat food.

Yes, it does mean there was an injustice. Any discrepancy between the moral outcome and the legal one is an injustice. Civilization is the struggle to reduce or reconcile that massive dichotomy.

The morally ideal outcome for rapists is instant death. That’s impractical (since it would endanger victims, for instance, and make people upset). So we have optimum alternatives.

A $26 fine ain’t it.

You’re misinterpreting my claim. The optimific outcome, the one that results in the most moral good, is the death of the rapist. Literally. If a law of the universe caused rapists to be instantly struck dead, this would be best.

The different normative question of what we should do (by definition, morally speaking) is also a practical one, exactly as you said.

The purpose of my original claim is to highlight the distance between the morally optimal outcome (simpliciter) and the justice system.

You mean it’s impractical — which has very little to do with what I said.

The Dune literary phenomenon offers fascinating insight into human psychology because the book series is such absolute unadulterated slop.

The morally correct recourse for rape is death.

The gov’t should hunt them like rabid animals to the ends of the earth.

Problem sets in college are done in LaTeX. Lots of python and R in STEM. Not to mention essays, watching lectures, and taking notes.

If she’d run him over with her car or raped him, no big deal. But drugs! Drugs are bad, or something, idk.

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