No. The process level view is that if rule of law is so easily circumvented by whether or not you have a badge, the system loses legitimacy
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Replying to @boatfloating
I mean was there some aspect of law not followed in this trial? It's totally possible But if the trial was carried out lawfully . . .
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Replying to @eigenrobot
I believe Roy Bryant and JW Milam's trial was carried out lawfully, too
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Replying to @boatfloating
which was a bad outcome, as was this almost surely but condition on state at beginning of the trial; what was process issue?
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hmm yes lemme refine (1) view today's trial outcome as a draw from a distribution defined by the conditions at the beginning of the trial
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(2) is your objection that the initial conditions were bad, or that the draw was fixed? (3) if it's the initial conditions . . .
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. . . why be especially upset when the outcome of the draw is known? I think (3) is what I'm trying to understand in others today. Because
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I think the initial conditions were rotten (and the circumstances that lead to them worse); but maybe this was fair coin toss in a bad game.
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