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You Can't Fix Stupid.

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by R. J. Treharne

them is found violating the law, then the crime is even more heinous. Consequently, the penalty should be even more severe. As law protectors, they were given a special privilege and respect; as violators, they should be given similar disdain.

  This inequality of punishment for violating a law should also apply to all professions who more than most should have known better. For example, the penalty for avoiding paying the proper tax should be penalized more for a tax accountant or a financial consultant than would be an average citizen; because they more than anyone should know better. Or for example, a professional politician should be penalized more than violating a “sunshine” law or for taking bribe than say a volunteer on a committee, because they should have known better.

 

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