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Or "settle my personal civil suit against you and if the award is high enough I'll let your proposed merger go through". I know corrupt politicians aren't rare.
by galangalalgol 2y ago
Or "settle my personal civil suit against you and if the award is high enough I'll let your proposed merger go through". I know corrupt politicians aren't rare. But trying to hide it at least affirms to people that the rule of law should be a thing.
- Terr_ 2y agoYeah, there's an important difference between consistent and principled use of court cases to uphold actual laws-even bad laws--versus using them to extort for private gain or unofficial favors. It's kind of like the D&D alignment chart: Sure, Lawful-Evil might still be feeding orphans to the doomlord, but at least they are constrained by their own dang rules instead of a playing Calvinball.