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Originally Posted by 9th Engineer
One of the original purposes of that law was to make a clear, nonemotional boundary for behavior. Parents
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Purpose of judges, juries and prosecutors is to also determine when the 'letter of the law' violates the 'purpose of the law'. You tell me. Clearly he committed a crime equivalent to first degree murder because some girl gave him a blow job. Clearly the law also intends a ten year sentence if she rubbed his balls even if he did not remove his pants. That is also what 9th Engineer claims.
Well we have justified a sentence of 1st degree murder because ‘purpose of laws’ is irrelevant. Using that reasoning, then those in possession of marijuana are also doing murder - because we cannot trust judges and juries to do anything but blindly enforce laws. This is how dictatorships get started. Clearly everyone is dumb and cannot be trusted; therefore we have laws?
Well if a girl has her shoes off and the car crosses a state line, then the males in that car must be arrested for rape. That also is the law - and must be blindly enforced. 9th Engineer tells us that those males must go to jail no matter what - because that is the law - no excuses.