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Originally Posted by Vampyr
You were advocating about how the letter of the law had to be followed in the manga porn guy thread.
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Is my stance on this issue inconsistent with my statements in the pedophile manga porn thread?
Xantar: If case law essentially reverses the law itself, then what is the point of making laws? At that point, aren't judges just making shit up as they go? I have a hard time believing that after reading 18 USC 600 that no law was broken. If our legal system can be that backwards, there is a serious problem.
In any case, the legalities of this are far less damning to me than the ethical violations. Natural law is not the same as human law, nor should it be. Law does not equal ethics, and the minute we use the legal system to judge whether or not an action was ethical is the minute our society crumbles.
This entire escapade is utterly unethical and is tampering whether you would like to turn the other cheek or not. A bribe was offered from the White House to alter a political campaign. Your argument in defense of the White House is STILL "hey, I think they did it, so its ok" or "this guy says its ok so its ok".
Stop referring to other people to make judgements for you. Look at what happened. The important question is "Do
you think this type of behavior is acceptable from our highest public officals or not, or not?"