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by DiggyJohnson 1283 days ago
So make the criminal act at the end of the journey illegal, not the act of walking 200 miles on foot.

This feels like the question of Blackstone’s ratio: “It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.” I’m not an absolutist about these things, but I take Blackstone’s side of this (very difficult) question.

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Is that ratio a target? I thought it was a kind of hyperbole. There probably are places where more than one in 10 people are laundering money.