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The simple fact of the matter is that money can neither retroactively unimprison a man, nor can it retroactively unbeat him. If you think it can do one, there
by LarryMullins 4y ago
The simple fact of the matter is that money can neither retroactively unimprison a man, nor can it retroactively unbeat him. If you think it can do one, there's no rational reason it can't do the other. But in truth, it can't do either.
Pretending that imprisonment is reversible is just a cowardly way of coping with the possibility of harming an innocent man.
- JumpCrisscross 4y ago> imprisonment is reversible Straw man. Nobody said this. It’s easier to reverse unserved time. And it’s easier to calculate money damages for mis-spent time.
- LarryMullins 4y agoYou can calculate a dollar figure for wages missed, but not time lost nor beatings sustained. Better to remove the first harm from the equation altogether.
- JumpCrisscross 4y ago> can calculate a dollar figure for wages missed, but not time lost nor beatings sustained. Better to remove the first harm from the equation altogether By replacing it with the incalculable latter? What?