Even the biggest asshole in the world deserves due process. "He's a bad person and deserves something bad, even if this isn't why he deserves it" is a short-si

Even the biggest asshole in the world deserves due process. "He's a bad person and deserves something bad, even if this isn't why he deserves it" is a short-sighted policy that people would never be willing to apply to themselves. "The ends justify the means" is a pathway to authoritarianism.