• veee@lemmy.ca
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    10 months ago

    “At this point, the accused admitted he was the one who started the fires and, as his main motivation, claimed he was doing tests to find out whether the forest was really dry or not,” Charron said.

    Would an adult elementary school jail sentence function as a form of punishment?

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      10 months ago

      Doesn’t seem like a believable motivation to me. You don’t need to literally light things on fire to tell when forest conditions are like a tinderbox, let alone do it 14 times. I figure this guy knew in his gut that the government was setting those fires, and if he could just find some evidence then he could crack the whole case open and people would stop calling him crazy. Of course he can’t find any such evidence (because it doesn’t exist) but he knows in his heart what’s happening so what’s the harm with creating some ‘evidence’ to move things along?

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      10 months ago

      He could not test that by collecting some samples and using a fireplace?

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        10 months ago

        Your first mistake was bringing rationality to a bonfire.

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      10 months ago

      Yes. But only if they refuse to acknowledge that you’re an adult and don’t belong there. Otherwise it’s just reading small books and adding numbers together manually.