2 ms·
It's an interesting topic though :). I concede the point that it can't be totally inaccessible, but the it seems like farmers with hunting rifles going after p
by krakensden 16y ago
It's an interesting topic though :).
I concede the point that it can't be totally inaccessible, but the it seems like farmers with hunting rifles going after professional soldiers. Sure, sometimes it works out or you get lucky, but that's not the norm.
Although come to think of it, the public defender situation isn't much better, is it.
- chernevik 16y agoThere are rights and then there are rights. It's pretty easy to see the characterization of "free speech" as rooted in reason / "natural law", or given by God. It's harder to see the "right" to drink alcohol on such universal bases. Something like legal representation isn't so much deeply fundamental as it is a pragmatic and institutional response to the problem of checking arbitrary prosecution. We would drop it if we could find some better way of checking those prosecutors.