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Chinese Courts Rule Companies Cannot Fire Workers Simply to Replace Them With AI
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this post was submitted on 30 Apr 2026
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You can't build a rule from exceptions.
There are those few circumstances of uniquely certain guilt when you probably could make a very breathy argument in favor of executing people, but that is not something that can be easily codified into law and the legal fiction of "beyond a reasonable doubt" has already been reliably subverted in ... Every country that currently has jury trials.
I love the idea that evil people get their comeuppance. I'm not so much a fan of giving the state or whatever perfectly ideal synergy of state and people exists in the utopic future the ability to murder without consequence.
To me it seems fairly obvious that that's bad and that the entity capable of doing it justly is not within the capacity of current human culture to produce.
You don't have to like it but again I ask what other solution you have to people that have shown themselves beyond a reasonable doubt to be objectively evil. People that would be lynched by the public if their crimes were just reported on.