Yup you’re right of course. It was a throwaway reply to someone clearly arguing in bad faith. While it isn’t legal precedent, it is a fairly compelling defense.
It is not in any way compelling unless you’re just looking for excuses. Take your bad faith genocide apologia to someone gullible enough for it.
EDIT: Also just take a moment to notice how fucking wild it is that “Yeah, I was totally wrong but the other guy was also wrong I reckon so it’s fine also I think what I said was good actually,” was their defense. That sure was a bunch of words they said.
Again, the fact anybody liked this comment is a definite sign of brigading.
Good luck with the “those other guys did it too and didn’t get a ticket” argumentation in a Court of Law when you try to contest a speeding ticket…
“It was done before and never taken to court” does not create a legal precedent and even if taken to court, it requires a high enough court and it’s specifically about interpreting certain points of Law, so merelly “A similar situation yielded Not Guilty” means nothing.
“I killed this person but I can point out to many other similar situations where this happen in the past”
Amazing logic…
… Literally how legal precedent works mate
No it’s not. You need to have a trial to have legal precedent. You can’t base a legal precedent on “Those other times were the same I reckon.”
Lazy, wrong bullshit like this gets 7 upvotes, how? Brigading.
Yup you’re right of course. It was a throwaway reply to someone clearly arguing in bad faith. While it isn’t legal precedent, it is a fairly compelling defense.
It’s one of most basic things about Law that merelly “somebody else did the same and got away with it” isn’t at all a valid defense.
The act itself is lawful or unlawful, quite independently of other people having done the same and gotten away with it.
It is not in any way compelling unless you’re just looking for excuses. Take your bad faith genocide apologia to someone gullible enough for it.
EDIT: Also just take a moment to notice how fucking wild it is that “Yeah, I was totally wrong but the other guy was also wrong I reckon so it’s fine also I think what I said was good actually,” was their defense. That sure was a bunch of words they said.
Again, the fact anybody liked this comment is a definite sign of brigading.
Good luck with the “those other guys did it too and didn’t get a ticket” argumentation in a Court of Law when you try to contest a speeding ticket…
“It was done before and never taken to court” does not create a legal precedent and even if taken to court, it requires a high enough court and it’s specifically about interpreting certain points of Law, so merelly “A similar situation yielded Not Guilty” means nothing.