Lincoln's full March 17, 1865, speech to the One Hundred Fortieth Indiana Regiment (commonly "Address to an Indiana Regiment")

This speech dude seems pretty sweet.

Well, Charlie Kirk did say that school shootings were necessary byproduct of the 2nd Amendment.

He died as he would have wanted to, proving that he was willing to be shot at a school

New proposed amendment: Slavery is legal again, but you can only be enslaved if you're proven to have advocated for slavery or publicized slavery apologia.

Does your comment not advocate for slavery? 🤔

shocked pikachu face

See, Ol Abe never heard of Fetlife!

......but that's a different kind of consentual slave.

Oh no. I have made a terrible mistake!

I like the idea of having capital punishment. But it can only be sentenced by a unanimous jury. And each of the 12 jurors will be hanged along with the person they're condemning. This will be done with the full knowledge of the jurors. They will know that if they vote for death, they themselves will die.

Is there some Hitlerian figure whose continued existence is such a risk, is so damaging, is so detrimental to the world that it warrants the state committing murder? Fine. Find 12 people willing to give up their own lives for the cause.

... wouldn't that just incentivize anyone who believed that a specific figure deserved to die to just... kill the person themselves?

In what way? You still have to get 12 randomly selected people to agree to kill a person. And the option would still be available for life without parole. So it's not like the bad guy is going to be out walking free. And you can't just sign yourself up for a jury.

Surely this comment would just be the proposal. It wouldn’t be advocacy until they go on to defend that proposal. Be aware, this comment is also not advocating for slavery, only for the aforementioned commenter.

Finally, thanks! I have seen the picture of this guy a few times and always wondered what's his name? Speech it is then...

Hey, the first two letters of your name! That's what you'll yell when you're getting whipped!

Can I at least have the kinky kind of whipping and slavery?

They mean "do an extrajudicial murder instead of handing down a death sentence to someone in court."

If, in executing some villain, you are going to die on the jury anyway, just murder whoever you think should die and bet that 12 other people won't think you're worth a 13-way murder suicide.

Random people can't get on the jury, and jurors won't have access to the person on trial. You can't "just murder" the person on trial.

I would like a caveat. School assignments do not count because oh your god some of the dipshit assignments we had to do about slavery. One of them, we had to write up pros and cons of slavery like we were prepping for debate team. I cannot remember what my group came up with but it was very intentionally obvious that it was bullshit. Something like "eventually their descendants would get access to Nintendos so I guess that's kind of a pro".

I would please not like to be enslaved in your hypothetical scenario because Mrs G had us doing assignments that made us think racistly, hopefully with the goal of knocking any half formed racisms out of our heads as we tried thinking and sympathizing. That attributes the best of motivations to Mrs G tho, and I like to think the best of people. I don't have to drink as much that way.

Common misconception, that is actually John Hamm with a beard

Not with that attitude or a court pass you can't

In what way? You still have to get 12 randomly selected people to agree to kill a person.

No, I mean extrajudicially.

Unless your idea involves keeping all prisoners (or all jurors) in permanent total solitary confinement, there are always ways. Anyone who believes that the person should die strongly enough to offer to kill themselves will very likely also believe it strongly enough to offer to risk imprisonment in the process of killing them.