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Again, sure technically, but it also Streisands everything about it. The cost-benefit for prosecutors and the other party isn't a slam dunk! Personally I'd ab
by xyzzy21 5y ago
Again, sure technically, but it also Streisands everything about it. The cost-benefit for prosecutors and the other party isn't a slam dunk!
Personally I'd absolutely do it and take the gamble. But I'm risk-thriving (hence started several companies, enjoy international travel, etc.)
- osense 5y agoGreat, so instead of being able to count on the justice system we're basicall back to mob justice?
- mcguire 5y agoWe like to think of it as democracy in action.
- UnpossibleJim 5y agoSo the Salem witch trials were "democracy in action"?
- Retric 5y agoYep. Democracy isn’t perfect it’s just one compromise among many.
- UnpossibleJim 5y agoSo better that more innocents be punished than risk any guilty going free? Truly, your love of the strictest "definition" of democracy is baffling, though I think most would vote against you.
- mcguire 5y agoI'm not sure how you get "punishing innocents" from publishing a very incriminating recording even though making such a recording is illegal.
- UnpossibleJim 5y agoYou literally called the Salem witch trials democracy in action, and don't understand how I got to punishing the innocent?
- Retric 5y agoNo, Democracy gets it wrong in both directions with more of the guilty set free and more of the innocent sent to prison at least compared to a hypothetical ideal system.
- mcguire 5y agoThe Salem witch trials were under the justice system.
- UnpossibleJim 5y agoNo shit. I was totally wrong. I picked a horrible example, lol. Thanks =)
- R0b0t1 5y agoMob justice can be true justice. As in this case precisely, there was proof that a court refused to listen to. At some point you need to worry about deep fakes, etc, but there's still cases where the accused more or less says they are guilty and flips the court off and everybody acts like nothing can be done about it.
- lotsofpulp 5y ago>Personally I'd absolutely do it and take the gamble. But I'm risk-thriving (hence started several companies, enjoy international travel, etc.) I did not think I would ever see someone comparing starting businesses and international travel with committing clear misdemeanors and possible felonies and opening oneself up to civil suits.
- bsanr 5y agoThat sounds like a description of every American civil rights activist ever.