re: #301 Sharmuta

The Constitution is not a suicide pact. It’s fine and good to stand up for humane treatment of prisoners, but not at the expense of costing lives. What kind of principle is that?

“Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent” -Adam Smith

And before that:

All who are made to be compassionate in the place of the cruel
In the end are made to be cruel in the place of the compassionate