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		stefan_kendall on Nov 30, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Power of a Pronoun You might want to read up on the term "thoughtcrime." Ben was an ass and very poorly represented the Node.js community. A "thoughtcrime" is a crime that is a crime because of the thoughts of the perpetrator.

rmc on Dec 1, 2013 [–]

Every country, essentially, has crimes based on your thoughts. It's called "intent to XXX", where XXX is some actual criminal act that you didn't do. "Intent to commit murder" is a crime for planning to kill someone.

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