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by worthless-trash 155 days ago
In the eyes of the law, it clearly does.
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account42 155 days ago
Are you sure? Judges and juries consider the perpetrator's character beyond the bad deed all the time, both to reduce or increase the penalty.
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worthless-trash 154 days ago
Yes, pretty sure, there are repeat offenders of up to 30 times that get exactly the same punishment as they did the first time.

Sadly, I no longer have access to that dataset.

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