Re:Seattle judges throw out 15 years of marijuana convictions
by antisthenes on Friday September 28, 2018 @01:22PM
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This whole thing is nothing more than just world fallacy.
Instead of looking at individual circumstances, people falsely assume (backwards logic) that bad things could have only happened to bad people (e.g. convictions) are dead set on revising their view of an event (well, if it happened, they must have deserved it!)
> If the US wants to truly embrace the ideals of free speech, then we must also accept that there will be actions that are immoral but legal.
Instead of looking at individual circumstances, people falsely assume (backwards logic) that bad things could have only happened to bad people (e.g. convictions) are dead set on revising their view of an event (well, if it happened, they must have deserved it!)
> If the US wants to truly embrace the ideals of free speech, then we must also accept that there will be actions that are immoral but legal.
And illegal, but moral.