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> - OTOH, it would be a perfectly valid question to ask why I'm facing such a stiffer penalty for a significantly less harmful act than someone else. No, it re
by gnaritas 13y ago
> - OTOH, it would be a perfectly valid question to ask why I'm facing such a stiffer penalty for a significantly less harmful act than someone else.
No, it really isn't. Your crime stands alone, that someone else may have gotten away with something has no bearing on your case unless that other case established some legal precedent, which it didn't. Another crime doesn't excuse yours.
- SilasX 13y agoThat's why I said the bullet point before the one you quoted.
- gnaritas 13y agoWhich is where you should have stopped; but you said OTOH, and I'm saying no, no OTOH, that's not a valid reason.
- onetwofiveten 13y agoOne crime doesn't excuse another. However, a discrepancy between sentences indicates either that one sentence was too harsh or one sentence was too soft. It's a valid question to ask which is true.