• Helix8o8@lemy.lol
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    13 hours ago

    If you’re defending someone who is accused of a crime… Well… you better have a really good fucking reason. Like being their defense attorney. Except, IMO, lawyers caught doing shenanigans shouldn’t just get disbarred and MAYBE prison time. They deserve to be enslaved on sugar plantations. As well as their children. Just my 2 cents. If you give them a carrot, and have a suitcase nuke in their crawl space where their family lives… Well, would have to be pretty motivated to not take the carrot.

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      7 hours ago

      If you believe in the rule of law (which you should unless you’re a fascist) you can defent a pedofile or any othet criminal without being on their side. Point is just to make sure they get a fair trial and justice happens.

      • CelestialMittens@feddit.org
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        You should, even. Being a pedophile is not a crime. Acting it out by harming children is a crime. And by far not all child sexual abuse is done by pedophiles.

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        7 hours ago

        You are replying to someone who is advocating enslaving children due to the actions of their parent. This is not reasonable.

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      12 hours ago

      I don’t think that’s equivalent. An attorney isn’t obstructing justice, they are a crucial part of the system, there to ensure that the accused gets a fair trial and that any possibility of them being innocent is taken into consideration. Even if they’re defending an obvious criminal.

      These people aren’t part of the justice system. They’re blocking the release of information surfaced under a criminal investigation because they know that its release will impact them negatively, and they’re already not exactly popular.