Just because we fucked up in our methods of obtaining evidence in a manner that is correlative with our own standards doesn't mean we get to abandon those standards for our own safety. Perhaps conservatives who support willy-nilly justice that ebbs and flows according to the severity of their own abuses are the ones who have the most to learn from this event. Maybe?
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Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats. - Diane Arbus
PESSIMISM, n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile. - Ambrose Bierce
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