Its more that “i did it because X” is only a defense when X is something society has written in as a justified reason to break that law. In the case of murder society has predetermined that self defense is a legitimate reason to kill someone and thus it can used as a defense. Killing someone because they are a climate denial activist, they are on the other side of the abortion debate, or any other reason that you personally believe to be a good enough is not a legit defense.

The law needs to be applied as equally as possible and not be subject to the whims of a given judge or jury. Obviously we aren’t perfect at accomplishing this but to purposefully undermine that foundation is a very dangerous thing. It took society a long time to progress to the point that our legal systems are set up to strive for fairness rather than punish whoever the local powers doesn’t like while letting others off because they “did it for the greater good”. Would you support the idea that the state could highlight that these two “did it for climate change” if the jury was likely yo be climate change deniers and thus more likely to find the women guilty due to their political dislike of climate change activists?

Jesus- time to let go of the blonde, too. She’d look far more human with grey.

Honestly, most of what cops do is sit around clocking people, causing distractions, accidents, and extreme slowdowns in traffic.

They're just an annoyance when they're not actively stopping real crime.

This is like when my high school buddy was trying to de-stem some weed in his car and suddenly found a helpful light shining in, so he held the bag up into the light to get a better look at the stems and seeds. Turned out to be a bad idea.

Is Disneyland’s Matterhorn mountain next?

This happened in my family. My grandmother ran off with a guy. My grandfather, drunk off his ass, called up the guys wife that he left to hook up. They hit it off and stayed together. Both couples were together until death after the switcheroo.

That's the part that grinds my gears, accountability should very easy but there is always some excuse for the greed

If you're sick of the church go protestant and save yourself the trouble of trying to fix something held together with duct tape and patriarchal hierarchy

Aka “The Shania Twain Story, In Reverse.”

rare to see my hometown for anything, but this makes sense.

My sister almost did this, she realized how much of a no thank you it was and ended the relationship. Her dirt bag ex is still “with” his neighbor and any one else he can get into bed.

Murder vs manslaughter is not a good comparison to this scenario. The difference between murder and manslaughter is a difference in “did you do this on purpose” not a difference in your personal justification for why you did the thing.

We could get rid of CEOs, I definitely think the answer is to radically change the economic system, not to keep these insane power imbalances and just hope that somehow better people will fill those positions

Noice. It’s the plot of Seduction of Mimi

As someone who grew up in Ingleside, or seemed to be a point of pride how many bars there were.

Can confirm, grew up just down the road, and went to school in Fox Lake.

>two counts of aggravated driving under the influence

How do you drive a car drunk twice?

Fox Lake. Where a cop embezzled from the youth program and then killed himself. But not before calling in a black guy who sent the chicago area law enforcement into a panic looking for something that didn't exist.

My favorite incident from that whole fiasco was one night, live on the news, someone's helicopter spotted some heat in the middle of a corn field....

Pretty sure every single cop in illinois and wisconsin responded and it turned out to be an electrical transformer. God they're dumb.

Yet booze is legal and marijuana is federally illegal. I hate everything.

especially if youre drunk

You're not wrong.

What did Ash do when the Johto League called? Did he say "but Johhto is over the border"? No, he just went. Trainers these days.

I had a girlfriend when I was in my 20's whose parents essentially swapped with their best friends like this. I always found it to be really weird and bizarre. But hey, as long as everyone's happy I'm happy. :)

As someone who grew up in Lake County, IL. I can tell you that at one point there were 2.5 bars per person in Fox Lake and Ingleside combined. Fox Lake was an old summer vacation area for the rich people of Chicago and you had two things to do there. Fishing and drinking. I'm not surprised that this happened. What I am surprised about is how the article doesn't mention how often the cops pull over drunk drivers on 59, Grand, and Rollins. Last time I was visiting family there were cops sitting outside Dino's Den (a restaurant/bar) waiting for people to leave Hello Folks (a bar across the street from Dino's) just so they could grab people that looked intoxicated leaving there.

Probably interesting for the children too. I actually have a family name that has no relation to my biological parents. The names were just carried over from another marriage. Not so funny though if you then date the daughter of the other couple and everyone else in school thinks you are dating your cousin.

If you’re raised in it, you grow up believing they’re the moral authority of the world, and to even question that means you have a problem.

Also, family and community pressure.