The law only applies to people I disagree with.
I am definitely a person who should be taken seriously
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echodot@feddit.uk 2 months agoPersonal opinion isn’t relevant here, that’s what you do not sit here to understand.
The sentence they got was based on the things they did and the way they conducted themselves in the courtroom. You cannot complain that their sentences were too long without also accepting that they hold some responsibility for the length of their own sentences. Whether you believe that’s moral or not is utterly irrelevant.
Streamwave@feddit.uk 2 months ago
echodot@feddit.uk 2 months ago
Except I didn’t say that did I so that kind of defeats your little argument.
The law applies to which is everyone. You just don’t like the law which is different.
LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Actually it’s the only thing that’s relevant. In your opinion legal = good and well-behaved=good, but not in mine.
If a system like ours denies change and justice, then it doesn’t deserve people cowtowing before it.
Real justice is about the why, and the broader context as much as it is about the what. A ransomware gang in Russia stealing from grandma is obviously not the same as a single mother stealing formula to feed her child. By your logic If the mother is upset and doesn’t think highly of the system, she gets a stricter sentence. Needless to say - this is absurd.
I feel like this is morality 101, no offense. I doubt you actually believe that context shouldn’t matter, but that’s how it comes off.
Needless to say, I think the sentencing should take into account not how you ‘conducted yourself’ but why you did what you did. I’ll agree that we disagree.
echodot@feddit.uk 2 months ago
No it’s not my opinion. You a problem you think that everyone is fighting you we’re not we’re just pointing out that personal beliefs are not the same as legal truth. I just don’t like disingenuous people so just you who seem to think that because you want something to be the case it actually is the case.
Whether I like the law or not or whether you like the law or not isn’t relevant. Who is the law and you can’t break the law just because you think you have some moral authority. It’s not my problem if you don’t like it.
LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
You’re missing the point. Whether the punishment was fair based on the law isn’t the same as the punishment being fair period.