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I'm put in mind of an episode of American Justice I saw recently rerun on television. "Payback for a Bully" - an instance where the defence for murder was how terrible a bully the victim was so they essentially deserved to die.
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Someone's bad behaviour never justifies your own bad behaviour. You have a personal responsibility for your actions. This is something that people never like to concede.
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@maiyannah Something the basic jist of Hammurabi's Code didn't cover, but in the thousands of years since we can safely say it's outdated.
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@awl I have always ascribed to the Categorical Imperative. But most people are more fond of making excuses than morals.
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RDN's Lucifer likes this.
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@maiyannah Yeah it isn't an ideal but nothing can cover positively everything. Also I don't think owning what you do absolves you of anything.
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@maiyannah The good thing about the law is that it cares more about what you do than about how you feel and even less about how you rationalize your behavior.
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