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"What this guy did is no different from trying to destroy someone... in more conventional ways" is exactly the point. If someone did exactly the same things in
by three14 15y ago
"What this guy did is no different from trying to destroy someone... in more conventional ways" is exactly the point. If someone did exactly the same things in conventional ways, he should still get the same sentence, and he probably would have.
- inoop 15y ago> If someone did exactly the same things in conventional ways, he should still get the same sentence, and he probably would have. Huh? I never said anything to the contrary?
- dkarl 15y agoExcept you referred to "destroy[ing] someone professionally" which is not the same thing as what this guy did. He tried to send them to jail. Going to jail for child porn and threats to kill the Vice President is a little different from being "ruined" professionally. Planting evidence (which was illegal for him to possess in the first place) and sending death threats to the Vice President is a little different from "spreading lies and rumors." You might disagree, but the justice system in the U.S. is supposed to sentence people according to the severity of their offense and the danger they pose to other people, not facile logical equivalences between acts that have vastly different effects on their victims and vastly different costs for society.