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Re:Chicago is tracking kids with GPS monitors that can recor... by rayiner on Monday April 08, 2019 @05:28PM (#19609224)
> Words seem trite in describing what follows when your husband is murdered in your presence, when your father is stripped from your life. The horror, the agony, the emptiness, the despair, the chaos, the confusion, the sense—perhaps temporary but perhaps not—that one’s life no longer has any purpose, the doubt, the hopelessness. There are no words that can possibly describe it, and all it entails. - testimony of J. Michael Luttig (former federal judge whose father was murdered by Napoleon Beazley, who was at the time 17).
Re:Chicago is tracking kids with GPS monitors that can recor... by Pharmakon on Monday April 08, 2019 @07:06PM (#19610027)
We should have sympathy for victims, without letting them be in charge of policy decisions. That pain leads to the opposite of rationality. It’s up there with “think of the children” arguments in terms of harm that can be done.