Computer pioneer and Nazi codebreaker Alan Turing is given posthumous royal pardon
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This is what happens when people try to post rationalize statements made for reasons which they do not want to admit.
I don't believe you. I think it's disgusting that you Canadians have showed no shame and no remorse for your many crimes.
I've definitely hit a nerve. I can tell. I got no intelligent response to my comment about Canada's disgraceful clubbing to death of baby seals. I just got a whinge.
This thread was already deflected by damngrumpy mentioning supposed "crimes" that Britain has committed in the past, so I thought it only fair if I gave a little list - which can be extended - of all the crimes that Canada has committed.
By the way, there's a capital B in "Brits".
How is Britain responsible for this man's death? He committed suicide. He is responsible for his own death. And if he had never broken the law in the first place, then he would never have got into trouble. The only person to blame was himself. In fact, Turing broke the law twice. He also broke the law by committing suicide. Suicide wasn't decriminalised in England, Wales and Northern Ireland until 1961.
If any country is backward and bigoted it's Canada for not allowing sex between consenting siblings. Shame on you.
Just for those who think they are important!
They are our seals, we don't stick our noses in to how you treat your seals. Sometimes it's a good idea to M.Y.O.B.
We never got caught... Til you prove anything, these 'alleged ' crimes never happened
Of course you don't
The adults move way too fast
The failure of your society is to blame.
For shame
Do you know what bulling is? Because that is essentially what this law was and that is what drove him to suicide.
They have royalty. Keep it in the family types.
If he lived in Iran today they would spare him the cost of killing himself and do it for him.
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Yes, I'd say so, but BL's too much of an intellectual lightweight to know that's what's in front of him. He can't argue a consistent position, says we shouldn't apply modern sensibilities to the past to exonerate Turing, yet Canada should do so to apologize for whatever sins he thinks it's committed, while seeming disinclined to accept that it actually has in many cases, and heaps shame on Canada for disallowing sex between consenting siblings--I don't even want to think about what might motivate that argument--while seeming unaware that Britain does too. There's no reasoning with fools.
At least I'm not a bigot. What problem have you got in allowing consenting brothers and sisters to have sex with each other and get married? Sweden allows it. This is the 21st Century, got God's sake.
And, funnily enough, I'm right. Turing broke the law. He should have thought about the consequences that would befall him when he broke the law.
Quite rightly. The British are a nation of animal lovers. We aren't, like Canadians, a nation of medieval barbaric savage thugs who see no problem in clubbing animals to death. SHAMEFUL.
I don't have to prove anything. All these crimes are known to have taken place.
It's good to know the adults manage to get out of the way of uni-celled Canadian thugs looking to club them to death. Good on them.
No. The failure of Turing to obey the laws of the land are to blame and he was, thankfully, rightfully punished.
You call Britain backward and bigoted for outlawing sex between consenting men. So I just thought I'd point out how backward and bigoted Canada is for outlawing sex between consenting siblings. Why should consenting siblings have less right than consenting gays? After all, I look upon sex between people of the same sex as being as disgusting and wrong as some people see sex between siblings. Sweden allows marriage between siblings. Canada doesn't. Canada is a backward medieval society.