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Perhaps a distinction without a difference, but they weren't 'legally' allowed to do this (iow it was still a crime), they were just immune from prosecution.
by nkozyra 10y ago
Perhaps a distinction without a difference, but they weren't 'legally' allowed to do this (iow it was still a crime), they were just immune from prosecution.
- joering2 10y ago... and at the end of the day -- what's the difference?? edit: second thought: I don't think it matters if something is done illegally, unless there is some penalty attached to it, no?
- nkozyra 10y agoI said the difference may be academic, the note pedantic note is that rape was and is still illegal. You can be found guilty of crime and not punished via a number of mechanisms ... that doesn't negate the existence of the crime.
- joering2 10y agoThat just proves my point since most people commiting crime and getting away with it via "number of mechanisms", usually do the crime again, since there is no punishment, or so they think. The problem is that if government is not punished, then why on earth to think they will stop committing crime?