RE: The PR Wing Of The GOP
June 17, 2022 at 4:41 am
(This post was last modified: June 17, 2022 at 4:42 am by BrianSoddingBoru4.)
(June 16, 2022 at 8:24 pm)Irreligious Atheist Wrote: All good points, and they were certainly not innocent if they actually entered the building, but you know how riots go. Some people start it, then other people's minds just stop working as individuals, and they give into the mob mentality mindset like they've been infected with a virus.
Should the people there with less bad intentions have known better after seeing how dark much of the pre-entering the Capitol protesting and uttering of threats and such was looking? Yes, they should have known better, but still, do we put them away for the rest of their lives if they didn't partake in any violence and just got caught up in the moment like Helios wants to do? The courts are not treating things this way. Maybe some people are getting off too easy though. That probably is the case.
Suppose I go to my bank to make a withdrawal (since I’m actually going inside the bank, we can also suppose this is happening in 1995). While the teller is taking my money out of the cash drawer, I see all those lovely bank notes and I get ‘caught up in the moment’, reach over, grab a handful of cash and run out the door.
Should I be punished any differently than someone who carried out a meticulously planned bank robbery as opposed to my ‘spur of the moment one’? After all, I went into the bank with less bad intentions, right?
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson