• Chetzemoka@kbin.social
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    2 years ago

    Do you think OJ Simpson is innocent? Would you want your daughter or sister to marry him?

    The are different standards for a reason. Society is perfectly capable of being aware that someone is a giant dickbag without there being enough evidence to justify using the power of the state to remove their freedom and incarcerate them. Those are two extraordinarily different things and you know it.

    To suggest otherwise is to imply that the government is a perfect arbiter of dispute that we should all just blindly accept. Something tells me you wouldn’t be so keen on that stance when it worked against your interests

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      The government performing arbitration is a power that society has vested in them. The solution to a flawed system is to fix the system, not vigilantism.

      The lack of trust in the judiciary is a failure of government and a failure of society.

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        2 years ago

        I don’t believe OJ Simpson is innocent, even though not convicted in a court of law. Sorry, not sorry