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Streamer 'Troll' Johnny Somali Found Guilty on All Counts, Sentenced to South Korean Prison Labor Camp For Public Nuisance Crimes (www.ign.com)

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Ramsey Khalid Ismael — better known as Johnny Somali, the infamous American streamer arrested in Japan, Israel, and South Korea for his provocative behavior — has been imprisoned in South Korea.

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[–] partofthevoice@lemmy.zip 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

Actually I did. You must have missed it, being too busy trying to convince yourself that you’re right.

Yeah, actually. I don’t believe in essences. Under my personal philosophy, we humans are more like information perturbation machines with extreme sensitivity to initial conditions. It’s close to saying you aren’t anything except the uniquely weighted combination of all your prior experiences, having been processed through the human scope of awareness and memory (if distinguishing the two is even fair here).

That said, nobody is nothing except “just a giant asshole.” I mean that physically, you can’t. You’re stuck in a constant state of becoming something, not being something, which is a necessary consequence of having your human awareness.

“Deep down” refers to a fundamental nature of what humans are. If you want to debate my perspective, go for it. To claim I never gave a perspective is just doing the same thing you’ve been doing this whole time — talking shit.

I never proposed a strawman argument. My point about concentration camps were validly pointing out that your logic isn’t generalizable. In effect, you contradict yourself on the merit of what sounds correct.
I also provided a procedural explanation for “deep down.” You then contort that into a baseless categorical statement about how some people are “monsters” deep down, completely missing my argument.
You pretend that I’m contradicting myself with your false equivalency between my statements of “always becoming something” and “can’t change what you are deep down.” If you actually tried to understand, you’d see that my points were compatible. They actually complement one another.

I can go on, but it is oh so exhausting. Thanks for wishing me luck.

[–] Atomic@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

So I didn't redefine what you meant with "deep down"... since you gave an essay to tell me it means exactly what I thought you meant.

And I do love your entire "nuh uh" wonderful

[–] partofthevoice@lemmy.zip 1 points 44 minutes ago* (last edited 40 minutes ago)

In any case, I think we’re on the same page about a few things.

You can't help someone that doesn't want to be helped. What I do know, is that prison is keeping him out of civilised society. Where he belongs.

Agreed, and I would just point out that we can do a lot more while they’re kept away from civil society. Personally, I appreciate the difference between what prisons are and what I think reform should look like (warning, I may be biased about this [lol]). I’d rather a prison system involve many more mental health professionals, like 2 for every corrections officer. To me, that’s what reform could look like but it doesn’t necessarily have to be that. My intuition just tells me, ask modern psychologists how to make human work better, they specialize in human psychology.

When you try to answer what a person is, you always get a background story. They’re always in a phase of being relative to what they were in the past. So, I think we’re should dilute that experience with some therapy. If they want to sit and pout all day, aka “don’t want help,” so be it. The therapist can be paid via tax dollars, keep her notes and make a recommendation to the judge after time served.

And I get that this is a made up solution… I’m not here suggesting this is what Korea should have done. I’m just pointing out my perspective on why the current practice is wrong. Hopefully one day that will improve.