Quilotoa@lemmy.ca to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoTIL that Canada has an Apology Act which states that saying "sorry" is not an admission of guilt.www.canadianlawyermag.comexternal-linkmessage-square61linkfedilinkarrow-up1692arrow-down15
arrow-up1687arrow-down1external-linkTIL that Canada has an Apology Act which states that saying "sorry" is not an admission of guilt.www.canadianlawyermag.comQuilotoa@lemmy.ca to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square61linkfedilink
minus-squareHugeNerd@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down13·1 month agoSo I can pummel a home invader while saying sorry and I’m OK?
minus-squarePeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up27·1 month agoNot admitting guilt doesn’t make you not guilty
minus-squareWolf@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 month agoAre Canadians not allowed to pummel home invaders? Sorry
minus-squaredoingthestuff@lemy.lollinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·1 month agoThey’re not. Self defense is illegal. The law requires you say, 'Thank you sir, may I have another?" whenever attacked.
minus-squarePeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoApologizing doesn’t affect their guilt or lack thereof. Canadians are allowed self defense within reason
minus-squareJhex@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·1 month agoNo, it just avoids the typical Murican scene where a person can’t even say they feel sorry for others as that may land them on the shitty end of a lawsuit
minus-squareouthouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoBut how will you have justice if you dont let people withthe means to access the apparatus of dtate violence use it to lash out at random strangers?
minus-squareJerkface (any/all)@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 month agoStill can’t stab him while he lies helpless on the ground.
minus-squareHugeNerd@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoI have to wait for me to be stabbed on the ground? Sorry!
minus-squareJerkface (any/all)@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoLike you know you’re making bad faith arguments, right? Can we at least establish that before trying to proceed in some manner?
So I can pummel a home invader while saying sorry and I’m OK?
Not admitting guilt doesn’t make you not guilty
Are Canadians not allowed to pummel home invaders?
Sorry
They’re not. Self defense is illegal. The law requires you say, 'Thank you sir, may I have another?" whenever attacked.
Apologizing doesn’t affect their guilt or lack thereof.
Canadians are allowed self defense within reason
No, it just avoids the typical Murican scene where a person can’t even say they feel sorry for others as that may land them on the shitty end of a lawsuit
But how will you have justice if you dont let people withthe means to access the apparatus of dtate violence use it to lash out at random strangers?
Still can’t stab him while he lies helpless on the ground.
I have to wait for me to be stabbed on the ground? Sorry!
Like you know you’re making bad faith arguments, right? Can we at least establish that before trying to proceed in some manner?
sayeth jerkface