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No. I'm not making any sweeping generalizations. I'm just commenting on the specific turn of events in this particular case.
by dataflow 2y ago
No. I'm not making any sweeping generalizations. I'm just commenting on the specific turn of events in this particular case.
- joshuamorton 2y agoAnd in this case, you are saying that government doing weird things to get a preferred ruling is moral, but a vigorous defense is not. I wasn't requiring a generalization. It's still a terrible concept in specific. Holding defense to a higher standard than the plaintiff is bad.
- dataflow 2y ago> but a vigorous defense is not I'm sorry, I just realized that was actually a miscommunication on my part. I phrased it extremely poorly in retrospect (your reading was entirely reasonable), but what I had in mind when I wrote "avoiding a jury trial" wasn't Google's avoidance of the jury trial in this case, but the government's avoidance of a jury trial in general. (i.e. the constant willingness to have settlements/plea bargains/etc. before a case ever goes to a jury trial.)