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> At the same time it has shown that, for example judges in court, tend to be less strict in applying the laws on nobles. This one is easy. For the same reason
by gizmo 10y ago
> At the same time it has shown that, for example judges in court, tend to be less strict in applying the laws on nobles.
This one is easy. For the same reason judges give harsher sentences to people of color than to white people. Harsher sentences to men than to women. Harsher sentences for street crime than for financial crime. They give harsher sentences to uneducated people than to educated people. Good looking people get lighter sentences too. Confidence and charisma pays off too.
It's so much easier to empathize with somebody who looks exactly like the people you went to school with, you went drinking with in college, who talks like you do and who cares about the things you care about. So naturally their defense will sound reasonable in your eyes, and a lighter sentence follows.