06-19-2022, 10:39 AM
(06-19-2022, 10:32 AM)hollodero Wrote: So, one can commit crimes and get away with it just as long as one credibly believes he had to right a wrong by doing said crime, no matter how nonsenisical that belief is.
I have to wonder about that criteria, or that logic. It doesn't seem to apply in everyday cases. Eg. I imagine tax fraud is still pursued to the full extent of the law, even if I full-heartedly believe I was unfairly overburdened with too much taxes.
It wouldn't apply in everyday cases because this wouldn't be an everyday case. That being said, the case law surrounding this is also extremely thin because, well, it is unprecedented. So some of the theorizing on it is understandably presumptuous.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
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"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR