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> It makes me wonder about the countless other thousands of convictions that remain on the books for things that we hardly think of as crimes today If we're go
by Shish2k 13y ago
> It makes me wonder about the countless other thousands of convictions that remain on the books for things that we hardly think of as crimes today
If we're going to retroactively declare the dead to be innocent, what's to stop us from retroactively declaring the living to be guilty?
IMO we should be leaving past convictions alone, and just treat this as a reminder that the law isn't always the absolute unchangeable definition of what is morally good.
- Pxtl 13y ago> If we're going to retroactively declare the dead to be innocent, what's to stop us from retroactively declaring the living to be guilty? Pardons don't work that way.