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Old 08-09-2018, 03:46 PM   #2256
Tyrone Slothrop
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Re: icymi above

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The courts have been making determinations about individual cases.
Courts are applying laws, which establish standards by which one can decide who is responsible. Responsibility is human construct, not a brute fact of nature.

When a group is systematically oppressed (or "disadvantaged"), the law is a tool of oppression (or disadvantage), not an impartial standard. That's the whole point. So how would one "assess" that in a "scientific" way?
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