Jarhyn
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But what about subconscious of those hypothetical people? Surely they would be affected one way or the other about the human and property damage from such a burning. Taken literally, there is no one on this planet who is not open to the "what about the subconscious effect" position.I think what Derec is saying is that the jury should have been pulled from people who don’t care whether Minneapolis burns or not.
ISIS members are heartless & detached from the situation enough & they'd want the city to burn. As such a guilty verdict from that jury should be acceptable to Derec. Maybe that's what he wants?
I guess? To me it's still more prescient that even were I on the jury, I would acknowledge that if 11 other people can't call an obvious murder a murder because at least one of them cares more about not bringing consequences to cops than bringing justice for a murdered man, the city SHOULD burn...
Granted, in other news, the Booger Boi who torched the police station got a 12m dollar restitution levied.
For some reason, I recall a lot of consternation about arsons in Minneapolis, but the right seems suspiciously silent here concerning this turn of events: that the worst of the fires were set by far-right agitators.