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The only problem with your view is that the prosecutor has a wide degree of personal choice about how viciously to prosecute, and thus bears moral responsibilit
by wissler 14y ago
The only problem with your view is that the prosecutor has a wide degree of personal choice about how viciously to prosecute, and thus bears moral responsibility. It's the same as a soldier who chooses where to aim his gun -- there are moral choices of where to point it and immoral choices. In this case, the prosecutor made an immoral choice.
So this is not about "The Justice Department", it's about a person in a position of power, who abused that power.
- ChuckMcM 14y agoTo be explicitly precise, the attorney in this case was doing her job. No more, no less. To rise to the level of abuse of power would require that she pursue a case that she could not win, or to withhold information needed for a proper defense, Etc. I don't defend her actions, but neither do I presume to know her intentions. I do not imagine her cackling with glee at this outcome. Vilifying her, as an individual doing her job, is not warranted. That leaves the organization which gave her that job and ordered her to do it. It is by that reasoning that I do believe it is about the "Justice Department" and not a particular prosecuting attorney within the department.
- wissler 14y agoDoing her job? Please see the movie "Judgement at Nuremberg" regarding "I was just doing my job". Seriously, see this movie. And, "no less"? On the contrary, all prosecutors do substantially less. They don't actually apply the law most of the time, if they did, we'd probably all be in prison. See this book: http://www.amazon.com/Three-Felonies-Day-Target-Innocent/dp/1594035229/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_nC?ie=UTF8&colid=1QDVVKYCCIG0C&coliid=I2DJJG7SUMN68D http://www.amazon.com/Three-Felonies-Day-Target-Innocent/dp/...
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- ChuckMcM 14y agoWow. If you seriously believe that the suicide of a mentally unstable defendant in a criminal trial, imputes the same level of human rights abuse as racial genocide then I really won't be able to change your mind.
- wissler 14y agoWow. If you can't discern a principle when shown something of a different degree, then I really think you're a complete idiot.