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[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (2 children)

The sort of thing well-educated white liberals believe because they learned it in university, and never found themselves on the wrong side of the law.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Did you read the entire comment?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Yes? I'm not arguing with them.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Which part?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That prosecutorial discretion is a good idea. I'm not implying that you do.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Oh yeah. It's horrible, and puts way too much power in the hands of DAs and AGs. Also it lets our legislators create lazy law on the assumption the right people will be spared, and the wrong people (e.g. poor and minorities) will become prison fodder.

I'd rather we had iron-clad difficult to re-interpret laws for which enforcement was obligatory. Then every miscarriage of justice (e.g. tweens in juvie for violating social media TOS) would be a call to fix the problem with aggressive legislative revision.

Notes for the next iteration of the United States, I suppose.