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When does a person become a criminal? When they commit a felony or only if they are caught and convicted?
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is this a serious question?
in a system defined around due process, one "becomes" a felon when one is convicted by a court of law. until then you're, you know, a suspect. because of the whole due process thing.
in a system defined around vigilantism, it makes some sense that one "becomes" a "criminal" when one commits an act. or is seen, perhaps by some racist half-wit with a weapon, as having maybe done so.
blam blam blam.
doesn't really matter:
if it turns out the vigilante was wrong, it's just another brown person gunned down in the desert.
if it turns out the vigilante was right, it's just another brown person gunned down in the desert.
blam blam blam.