Re:Judge orders Google to turn over a full year of actor’s data
by avs733 on Thursday January 09, 2020 @10:31AM
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More so that laws are a social construct.
We can have a discussion about how the state should behave without using catastrophic examples to shift debates about principles and policies.
The post I was responding to sees the role of the state as a absolutist binaric executor of often fuzzy laws and rules. The context of this example doesn't have any affect on whether or not that naive belief is a path to a functional and just society.
Whatever happens with Smollett, or the next example, simply doesn't support a belief that every crime should be prosecuted. There was a (hamfisted but entertaining) TNG episode about this for gods sake...
We can have a discussion about how the state should behave without using catastrophic examples to shift debates about principles and policies.
The post I was responding to sees the role of the state as a absolutist binaric executor of often fuzzy laws and rules. The context of this example doesn't have any affect on whether or not that naive belief is a path to a functional and just society.
Whatever happens with Smollett, or the next example, simply doesn't support a belief that every crime should be prosecuted. There was a (hamfisted but entertaining) TNG episode about this for gods sake...