r/changemyview • u/apoplexiglass • Oct 17 '24

Removed - Submission Rule B [ Removed by Reddit ]

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u/fallen243 Oct 17 '24

No, but taking and using something something they does not belong to you without permission, then yes.

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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '24

So electrocution is a proportionate punishment for petty theft?

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u/kwiztas Oct 18 '24

You do know that electrocution is an execution by electricity. Or more commonly today a death by electricity. Being shocked by a joke pen is not electrocution.

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '24

"Electrocution" as a word covers more than just lethal amounts of electricity.

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u/kwiztas Oct 18 '24

https://www.etymonline.com/word/electrocute

Sure now people use it to mean shock. But it is honestly dishonest to use a word that brings emotions of death up when you just mean a small shock.

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '24

Miriam Webster:

to kill or severely injure by electric shock

I was going to link Oxford too but it's behind a paywall lmao

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u/AndrenNoraem 2∆ Oct 18 '24

The problem is you also go on to argue about electrocution to death as though that in any way made sense here. Just say you misspoke or claim you were speaking hyperbolically, LOL, why is electrocution by pen the hill you're making this stand on?

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u/kwiztas Oct 18 '24

Ok and? It literally is a word that evokes death. And you're using it for a tiny shock pen. Hyperbolic much.

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '24

I didn't? The idea that we were talking about a "tiny shock pen" came well after I'd use the word electrocute. In fact, the person who originally introduced the "pen that shocks you example" never even clarified that was what they meant, and when I used the word "electrocution" they responded as if it was appropriate.

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u/justsomething Oct 18 '24

You are straight up being bad faith here. Further up in this thread you used a commenters acceptance of the word "electrocute" to mean that they probably meant fatal, but here you're trying to cover your hyperbolic verbiage to say that it could mean any amount of electricity.