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1. ChrisLTD · 1789746428 · focus · HN ↗

   The law, as practiced in the United States, protects but does not bind elites, whereas the law binds but does not protect the lower classes.

   1. jameskilton · 1789748117 · focus · HN ↗

      If there is one fundamental problem with our society it is this.

      Mercy for the rich. Justice for the poor.

      A healthy society does the opposite, those with much should be held to higher standards.

      1. dismalaf · 1789748355 · focus · HN ↗

         No, a healthy society shows mercy to the innocent, and enacts justice on the guilty.

         1. jameskilton · 1789748567 · focus · HN ↗

            This is a strange statement because by definition the innocent don't need mercy. Mercy is forgiveness for wrongdoing, and refusing to forgive and give mercy to some leads to a society that is cruel. As Thomas Acquinas put it:

            > justice without mercy is cruelty; mercy without justice is dissolution.

            1. dismalaf · 1789750157 · focus · HN ↗

               Yet government wrongs normal people who have done nothing daily. Subjects them to crime through ineffective justice, taxes them, criminalizes behaviour that rational people would consider not to be criminal, etc...

               In my country they'll try to prosecute you for longer jail sentences if you criticize the government than if you kill someone...

               1. owebmaster · 1789751053 · focus · HN ↗

                  And yet the same don't happen to the rich people doing the same. Which is funny as you ask for exactly that to be the case.

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