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“It’s Not Fair!”
Cried the defenders of Scooter Libby as he faces 30 months of jail time….
So long as possession of crack cocaine carries a mandatory minimum sentence double that of Libby’s, my sympathy remains elusive. If Libby’s defenders wish to go to work on that injustice as well, though, perhaps I’ll hear them out.
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[...] by and against people you’ve never met does not meet basic intuitions of fairness. And the claim that injustices are justified by the existence of other injustices betrays a dark underside of group resentment infecting political [...]