Quote: My point was that reason and compassion have nothing to do with law. The law does not allow for one to steal food if they are hungry, for instance.
Therefore the law isn't discretionary... it doesn't make exceptions on which laws that can be broken for the sake of compassion.
Damn you, Rythym..... you've put me in the position of having to agree with Huggy...and I fucking hate that.
The laws in the country serve the power structure. They are enforced in such a way as to brutalize minority populations.
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/201...ks-widens/
Quote:Incarceration gap widens between whites and blacks