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DoomTheGyarados posted...
Look, here's the thing. I don't like Rittenhouse as a person. But if you can one or two things and instead of a white kid he was a black kid and he was there protecting a business and someone threatened to kill him and he shot the same white person I'd want that kid to walk too based off the law.

Ok I believe you work in the legal system so I get where you're coming from but this is a truly weird take to me, a normie.

First of all I have no faith this precedent will be applied equally, so let's get that out of the way. This is a matter of faith in the legal system and there's not really anything to be discussed here but it's an important disclaimer.

Second of all of you just swap the race and nothing else it would still be fuck this kid. The fucked up part isn't anyone's race, it's that an alt-right militia mobilized for an opportunity to shoot people protesting a cop shooting and advocating for racial justice. If you're changing more of the context you maybe have more of an argument, but then you are changing the situation significantly. Context matters, but morality is subjective.

The law is supposed to be objective and applied equally, and can only consider context to a certain extent. I understand why it has to be this way. But that inherently divorces it from subjective morality, and then you add in the fact that laws aren't actually objective and are subject to interpretation constantly, and thus aren't applied equally, and well. Maybe you can see why I think this doesn't matter. I think this is a problem inherently unsolvable by the legal system.

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