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Prosecutorial Power
The power of the prosecutor's discretion is discussed at length here with the Genarlow Wilson case. The dude was sentenced to 10 years for consensual oral sex. It's cases like this that are a huge motivation to practice law on that side of things. Then again the massive debt incurred in law school could change that. Ha. But I like to think I am better than that, that I will do the right thing regardless of money or future earnings. The future will be what it is; my freedom to act as I deem proper has a limited impact on reality, there are so many other participants and environmental influences who have a hand in it. I can only act in a manner befitting my knowledge and standards.
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- steven
- "Seeing that before long I must confront humanity with the most difficult demand ever made of it, it seems indispensable to me to say who I am. Really, one should know it, for I have not left myself "without testimony." But the disproportion between the greatness of my task and the smallness of my contemporaries has found expression in the fact that one has neither heard nor even seen me. I live on my own credit; is it perhaps a mere prejudice that I live? ... I need only to speak with one of the "educated" who come to the Upper Engadine for the summer, and I am convinced that I do not live ... Under these circumstances I have a duty against which my habits, even more the pride of my instincts, revolt at bottom, namely, to say: Hear me! For I am such and such a person. Above all, do not mistake me for someone else!" - Nietzsche, Ecce Homo
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