Carmen Ortiz Has Blood on Her Hands (2013)

Re:Carmen Ortiz Has Blood on Her Hands (2013) by Talanes on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @08:37PM (#29573815)

>Why are we going after Carmen Ortiz again? Prosecutorial discretion is the law of the land, after all.

One doesn't follow the other. If anything, the fact that certain things are left to personal discretion makes it more important for people to speak up when they disagree. In the absence of law to constrain the behavior of the Carmen Ortiz's of the world, social pressure is all we have.

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Re:Carmen Ortiz Has Blood on Her Hands (2013) by dvt on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @08:39PM (#29573830)

> absence of law to constrain the behavior of the Carmen Ortiz's of the world, social pressure is all we have.

How about changing the laws? You do realize that we literally pick the law-makers, right? I guess writing blog posts is easier.

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Re:Carmen Ortiz Has Blood on Her Hands (2013) by Ensorceled on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @08:48PM (#29573900)

I always wonder why people assume writers are

a) not doing anything else to further goal and

b) that writing is absolutely, totally useless even though lots of people read it and they, themselves, felt compelled by the writing to respond

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Re:Carmen Ortiz Has Blood on Her Hands (2013) by zeusk on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @09:33PM (#29574154)

I guess they haven't heard the idiom, "The pen is mightier than sword"

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