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Why not?
by marginalia_nu 2y ago
Why not?
- AnthonyMouse 2y agoProsecutorial action not bound by the law is despotism, which is inherently unjust.
- marginalia_nu 2y agoIs prosecution the same as justice?
- AnthonyMouse 2y agoIt calls itself the Department of Justice.
- marginalia_nu 2y agoYou'd think the bureau of alcohol, tobacco and firearms would be a hoot, but alas there's more to a thing than its name.
- AnthonyMouse 2y agoThe Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms is intended to be concerned with alcohol, tobacco and firearms. What is the Department of Justice intended to be concerned with? Presumably not foreign policy.
- staplers 2y agoDoes unequal enforcement count as unjust? Seems you're purposely missing the point.
- AnthonyMouse 2y agoEnforcing the laws unequally is unjust, and is the reason why having overbroad, overcomplicated and widely violated but rarely enforced laws is a mechanism of injustice. But large corporations typically have lawyers and then comply with the law, even while doing something you might not think they ought to be doing. Conniving of a way to get them anyway, instead of changing the law so it does what you intend, is either that same injustice (selective prosecution for a different offense than the thing that made you dislike them) or the overt despotism of making up the rules as you go along. There is really very little daylight between the two of them except that people seem a lot more inclined to go along with the first one when it gets them the outcome they want.