Is it ideal to arrest doomsdayers who "predict" the end?

Are you in with the idea of arresting the people who gives out false "predictions" of the world's rupture? Like Harold Camping, who thought that the world will end in 05/21/11 or 10/16/21? And various wackjobs who think that the world will crumble? They're only causing nothing but public disruption and misinformation. Those hoaxes aren't even different from a cruel prank set up by internet trolls.

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  • green_boogers

    Arresting doomsayers and killing them on the day of predicted doom only fulfills their own prophesy. Sadistic irony achieved!

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    • I never said that they should be caged and give them the death penalty.

      They should be locked up so it can set an example for those doomsdayers try to go on with the trend.

      We don't need a batch of delusional individuals to meddle like that with stupid people.

      Stop trying hard to be snide. On the other hand, try harder somewhere else. Maybe you'll succeed eventually.

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      • green_boogers

        Why do want to protect people from their own stupidity? Shouldn't they learn the hard way to become sadder and wiser?

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  • thegypsysailor

    What public disruption and misinformation?
    Only a fool would believe that crap. Arrest the fools who believe instead and leave the prognosticators to make fools of themselves.

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    • stopandthink

      That's more stupid than what OP said. Arrest? Arrest people who believe what somebody else told them?
      Even if they're wrong, and silly for that matter, they haven't done anything wrong.

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      • thegypsysailor

        Arrest them for being so fucking stupid as to believe that crap. Society would be much better off not having to save the truly stupid from themselves, don't you think?

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    • Why stop there? Arrest the culprit itself.

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  • Hey asshole, think you can make my job illegal? I'll have you burned at the stake for being in contempt of God. This spectacle will scare even more weak minded people to become followers of Jesus.

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    • green_boogers

      You're playing a centuries old game, pal. Let it go.

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  • I thought the world was going to end before.

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    • thegypsysailor

      Didn't it?

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      • It appears the reality we are currently in is still here.
        If you are referring to my discussions about alternate or former realities, some end and some go on. If you get into the technicalities of quantum mechanics you could say the world in is a constant state of simultaneous absence and existence, being that the concept of time is nothing more than perception

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        • thegypsysailor

          As in Schrödinger's cat?
          Of course, this planet has had massive events that have exterminated all life several times before, though the planet did not "end", all life did.
          I wonder how the religious masses ignore all that, in their silly creation fantasies?

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          • Not quite Schrodinger's cat.
            Personally I believe that everything that happens creates alternate timelines where each thing happens. Our consciousness is what gets to decide where we go to, although all of the possibilities exist outside our concept of space-time.

            The way I think of time is that everything that has happened, and will happen, as well as other possible futures and pasts, simultaneously exist, and we perceive the events to occur in a linear format, because that is what makes sense to our minds. The illusion of time exists because without it we would only perceive chaos, similar to what we perceive in dreams.

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            • thegypsysailor

              I agree that that concept is a distinct possibility.

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