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  • Derpenheim@lemmy.zip
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    1 day ago

    For the people thst practice law, it is not uncommon to have charges dropped even if the law was very clearly violated, because it just doesn’t feel.right to penalize them.

    E.g., a battered spouse kills their partner or a parent is caught stealing baby formula in small amounts. Such cases regularly get thrown out

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      6 hours ago

      I like to think about it as in the “violence is bad”, but violence to stop violence is always good; or “lying is bad”, but lying to save someone’s else life (or even your own life) it’s objectively good.

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      18 hours ago

      In the Confucian philosophy of Li, it is loosely translated to ‘right’ or ‘equity’. It is considered that those that enforce laws but are willing to bend them based on what seems right on ethical and virtuous means, those are people that have good Li. To know that while the laws are written in ink and stone, they do not have to be enforced in the same manner.