• MostlyBirds@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    If they commit crimes, the laws are wrong.

    To be fair, this reasoning actually holds up for a very large proportion of our laws.

    • LemmyLefty@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      While true, if someone they didn’t like did the exact thing they did and received the same punishment, they would still see their own selves as unjustly punished and the other person justly punished.

      See: The Only Moral Abortion Is My Abortion