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by Karunamon 2846 days ago
Equality before law doesn't exist right now. Being rich carries with it connections and enhanced representation that gets one out of many crimes scot free that would be life-ruining to you or me.
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And replacing criminal proceedings with cash fines improves this how?
> And replacing criminal proceedings with cash fines improves this how?

Because apparently the solution for not living in a utopia is to deliberately construct something that will obviously be a dystopia.

Argue how the proposed system would be any better, in this particular aspect you're pointing out, than the current one.