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Cake day: July 9th, 2023

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  • You’d have to check with your local criminal lawyer or DA who would likely point out such exciting charges as accessory to a crime, accessory to murder, aiding and abetting a crime, criminal conspiracy, and 8 or 12 other extremely similiar charges which would all be dropped simultaneously on you and you’d either have to hope a competent attorney can navigate those charges for you and convince a judge and jury you ain’t done nothin’, or, as they’d prefer, you plea to something like manslaughter and only spend a few years in prison and a decade on parole, or, just sign the paper that your friend did it and talked about it and only get six months and 8 years on parole (which is $350/mo, usually). Bear in mind you’ll be in jail until all that is settled, which hopefully is less than a year but no promises. Unless you have $50,000 on you, cash.

    Oh, btw, the justice system is super fucked up.


  • The US companies that sold the product were, as far as anyone knows, ignorant of the contamination, buying from people ignorant of it who bought from people ignorant of it.

    A fair point. But in criminal law when you don’t know the guy in the passenger seat is going to jump out and shoot someone you still get life in prison for it. Civil litigation is not even bound by that and I would think a finding that they burned all their internal documentation to avoid discovery that they knew very well there was lead in it would be enough to award damages.










  • However, ultimately, personal consistency doesn’t really matter in the grand scheme of things, right? If I smoke cigarettes, I can still tell people not to smoke, right?

    You can tell people not to smoke but you’d be a hypocrite then. If a hypocrite is telling you not to do something they’re doing - that’s worthless.

    You’re saying: Take no violent action against those destroying the planet because we should respect all life. And you’re vegan. So that consistency bolsters your message, downvoted though it may be.