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Re: Misperceptions of America (Was: Conversation w/ a LEGO Rep)
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Sun, 29 Aug 1999 04:41:02 GMT
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onyx wrote:
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> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Christopher L. Weeks writes:
> > Does that make it right? Why not shoot for laws that are just instead
> > of ones that reflect popular opinion?
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> and who decides what is "just"... that is still a perception, subjective,
Well, I and certain other reasonable people seem to agree. Let's just
go with that. :-)
> justice is in the eyes of the lawmaker... and so we already *are* making laws
> we consider just
We? I don't make laws. I don't think they're just.
> > Hunh? A) I don't think that he got off.
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> uhhhh.. i was watching the TV when i'm *pretty* sure i heard them say "not
> guilty"... now, if you mean the way he's been treated by the public ever
> since... well.. do you mean that "public opinion" shunned him??... please..
> it's one thing to be ousted from the limelight, and another to ride the
> lightning like any other (black) man in LA would have for murdering a white
> woman and a young white man
He was found not guilty by the criminal court, and guilty by the civil
trial. He's now a pauper. I'm assuming (but it's not a big leap) that
you think the court was incorrect in their verdict. Why? Were you a
dissenting juror on that case? Which of the pieces of evidence were so
clear? Why do you think the other jurors disagreed with your conclusions?
> > B) I don't think it had
> > anything to do with public opinion. There was a trial.
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> i restate the above paragraph in response to that one.. yeah, there was a
> trial.. and it was <Sarcasm>identical</Sarcasm> to every other murder trial in
> LA... please, we'll sooner see the pope punch a nun than see a glorified
> football hero get the chair in america
I expect that if there had been evidence such that he was guilty beyond
a shadow of a doubt, he would have been convicted and sentenced and
maybe put to death for the crime. I am very cynical about the laws
being just but only moderately cynical about the courts.
--Chris
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