There's an obvious problem in the judicial system in which one person could spend a decade in jail for a crime another gets a couple years probation for.
Why so shy with particulars? I gave you the opening. Well, allow me then. Blacks receive disproportionately harsh treatment and sentencing. I believe you've noted that men received similarly disproportionate sentencing when compared to women. I suspect that both are tied to cultural expectations and biases.
'Justice is blind' is simply not practiced- it's a lie we repeat to make ourselves feel better
The problem is that bias can move the margins where you have necessary, even intrinsically helpful ranges of sentencing. Or, we have to retain the right to mitigate and to sentence relative to particulars, but we need to do a much better job of seeing to it that gender and race aren't part of what moves the application of guidelines.
It's crime to have an incorrect ID- but not for the most fundamentally identifiable label on them.
How much sense does that make
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If we recognize gender as being something other than biological expression it makes sense. If we limit it to that, it doesn't.
It's like those Muslim women wanting to wear a full covered burqa on their ID- it makes it utterly pointless to even have one.
But somehow, that makes sense in the liberal's brain.
That's too distorted and goofy to bother with. Frame a serious objection in serious terms and I'll happily meet and consider it, as I just did with gender identification. Don't and, well, I'm bored with that sort of thing.