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> The idea of zero tolerance is a little crazy. When laws are BS, ZT is not a little crazy: it's inhumane. > It isn't 100% clear to me where to draw the line.
by cies 6y ago
> The idea of zero tolerance is a little crazy.
When laws are BS, ZT is not a little crazy: it's inhumane.
> It isn't 100% clear to me where to draw the line.
I feel that's the idea with BS laws: everyone is a criminal, so you can just dig for dirt on anyone and make them go away as law enforcement.
What BS laws? Well all victimless crime for one. I dont mind some victimless behaviours are offenses (punishable with a fine), but a crime (punishable with jail time)?! That's IMHO a big part of why the law system is broken. We need the constitutional right not to be punished for victimless crime.
- rightbyte 6y ago> What BS laws? Well all victimless crime Reckless driving and child pornography comes to mind. It is crimes against the state atleast where I live.
- throwaway0a5e 6y ago>Reckless driving and child pornography comes to mind. It is crimes against the state atleast where I live. Because teenagers getting air off the train track berm in their shitbox cars and sending nudes to each other definitely needs to be prosecuted like criminals <rolls eyes>. It's easy to call for zero tolerance in the abstract.
- rightbyte 6y agoI took a cheap shoot at a hyperbolic statement. Sorry.
- lordnacho 6y agohttps://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/cardinal_richelieu_183310 https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/cardinal_richelieu_183310 If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.