re: #86 JoyousMN

No, it’s not moral equivalency. We were given moral obligations by the founders of our country in how they thought we should manage our democracy. They handed us a tool maintaining a society of people called the Constitution. It mandates that we uphold the rule of law, not vigilante justice. We may all want to hurt this guy for what he tried to do, but it’s not right and it’s not in our own best interests. Additionally we set the example for the world to follow and we need to follow our laws even (maybe especially) when it’s hard.

You have that exactly backwards. We’ve grown civilized in our old age. 200 years ago this guy wouldn’t have made it through the weekend before he would have been hanged.