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Comment by whiddershins

13 years ago

I love this article so much. It explains something that can be hard to grasp. It isn't immediately intuitive, but it's certainly so: without these nuances and flexibility, no progress can exist.

Or we could just do away with any felony that doesn't involve physically harming a person.

What about a felony where someone embezzles $500 million in taxpayer funds? Or knowingly sells defective vaccines to people who mercifully never actually catch ill?