# Pitting Steophan

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-steophan/795678>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [September 6, 2017, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-steophan/795678 "2017-09-06T22:34:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2021, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-steophan/795678/133 "2021-12-02T20:53:12Z")

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Here, I’ll do some of your work for you. Here’s the post you insulted me for that got you warned:

> [@Arbery Shooting in Georgia and Citizen's Arrest \[& similar shootings\]](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arbery-shooting-in-georgia-and-citizens-arrest-similar-shootings/853815/482):
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> We’ve discussed all this before. Many people can be legitimately described as murderers even if they weren’t ultimately convicted (for example – KKK murderers who weren’t prosecuted or who were “exonerated” by a white supremacist judicial system in the early and mid 20th US). “Murderer” is not only a legal term, it’s also used outside of purely legal contexts. As for the specifics of the Zimmerman case, that’s been done to death in other threads (and would be a hijack here), and the two of ou…

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> We’ve discussed all this before. Many people can be legitimately described as murderers even if they weren’t ultimately convicted (for example – KKK murderers who weren’t prosecuted or who were “exonerated” by a white supremacist judicial system in the early and mid 20th US). “Murderer” is not only a legal term, it’s also used outside of purely legal contexts.
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> As for the specifics of the Zimmerman case, that’s been done to death in other threads (and would be a hijack here), and the two of our systems of morality have been demonstrated to be so profoundly different that there’s no possibility of any better understanding here on what we find morally reprehensible.

Which words, specifically, in those two paragraphs demonstrated not having “a _system_ of morality”? Which words demonstrated “a bunch of unexamined responses to things you find unpleasant” and that I am “why we need laws”? Which words demonstrated a “childish desire for vengeance against people who did nothing but protect themselves”?

The words are right there. Which ones do you object to?

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