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+10 but my answer might depend on the crime.
If 10 guilty murderers go free to keep one innocent person out of jail how is that doing the greatest good for society?
If 10 guilty shoplifters go free & 1 innocent person stays out of jail that's a lot more palatable
I guess at the end of the day there is no way an innocent person should have to do time for a crime they did not commit.
I didn't get that it was criticizing prostitution as an institution (maybe I'm an idiot like Goldfadd very mean & unnecessarily called you). It was just a thing that was legal at that time. It was only Little Bill's town ppl weren't allowed to carry as Sheriffs had a lot of authority back then. Stealing a horse was a death sentence. They didn't have time for months of trials & appeals. Civilization, and all it entails, was coming but not fully implemented yet. The laws of the jungle were still in play to a point.
Death for scarring & for stealing a horse seems harsh by today's standards. But you steal a man's horse you're stealing his livelihood or ability to have one so there needed to be strict deterrents. I still think death for scarring even back then was a little OTT but again that was the woman's livelihood, or maybe more accurately the man in charge's livelihood under attack. But he didn't even want that hit carried out.
I love Unforgiven too.
In the Deadwood movie sheriff Bullock had a line "My job ain't to follow the law. My job is to interpret it." I think back then they had considerable powers of discretion. Bullock was no villain in that show he was probably the most honorable character.
I like it!
This has been a slow moving train coming right at us for decades. It's like paying for new paint on a sinking ship. I should add a car metaphor & a plane metaphor too.
Dude's with a billion dollars I don't feel bad for him.
James Woods is an incredible acting talent and I'll still watch & enjoy many of his films today.
From his Twitter within the last day:
"Feeling confident behind the millions of illegals he's imported, plus the proven grift of mail-in ballot harvesting, Joseph Biden knows this upcoming "election" is a slam dunk. He has even promised to import Palestinian "refugees," ..."
I have no problem with good faith conservative arguments, I may even agree with some of them. But casting doubts on the integrity of 2020 and future elections isn't helping us as a country. It's crackpot stuff and James Woods, a very smart man, knows better. Maybe he thought stirring shiz up creating publicity would lead to more roles? Idk. The dudes an acting legend & probably could have worked the rest of his life in high esteem if he didn't go down this road.
Yeah that could work. He'd still have to be careful spending it. Maybe it's easier to launder in 1974.
As tempting as it might be would you really want that heat even if unseen by the deputy? When the police showed up and find the money missing it would be a statewide manhunt, road stops, the whole works. Radio travels faster than a car. Knife salesman was driving through he didn't know the area. I doubt he knew how to launder money.
I don't think that couple would have accepted any amount of money. Unless as a means to get the guy with a gun to go away then hand it over to the police.
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