(June 24, 2012 at 4:22 pm)jackman Wrote:(June 24, 2012 at 3:52 pm)Brian37 Wrote: So that's your excuse? "Everyone else breaks the law to some degree, so I should too" How were you involved in the legal system ", not as a lawyer plenty of times"?
first, it's not an excuse. i don't owe you anything of the sort. second, i'm not doing anything because other people break the law too. it just goes to show the imbalance in the system - that same system that you assume will prosecute all crimes evenly. for your other question, i've been arrested plenty of times.
Quote:Just with speeding tickets I am sure cops get "I was only going as fast as everyone else". Sure, but they didn't stop anyone else, they stopped the guy saying that.
try to answer without feeling the need to draw analogies - you always manage to pick ones that mean little to the topic.
Quote:Just because other people do stupid shit doesn't mean you should do it too.
i don't do stupid shit, i deal with people at the level they need dealt with.
Of course there is an imbalance in the system which is all the more reason to stop the climate of fear based on "lock em up and throw away the key".
When you deal with poverty and that the poor do not have the resources to hire a good lawyer and a climate of fear you fill prisons up with people who really would do better with treatment and education. Instead we send far to many non violent people to violent prisons and they end up becoming worse off and get dumped back on us.
Fear is what we sell currently. Instead we should be seeing investment in the economy to insure more opportunity and stability.
