Re: Cowboys herding cats

David Friedman <ddfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Doug Berry wrote:
Having been robbed several times, and lost a job because the
company had so much equipment stolen that we couldn't meet a
contract, I feel little to no sympathy for convicted thieves.

And whether they are guilty is irrelevant to those feelings?

But whether they have been *convicted* is important. So he bears
no grudge against the people who robbed him unless they were caught
and convicted.

It's disturbing that he allegedly works with retarded people. While
anyone can be falsely convicted, retarded people are at especially
high risk, as they're often easily intimidated and fooled by lengthy
and hostile police interrogations. If he is giving advice to retarded
people, he is doing them no favors.

Ironically, I've probably been victimized a lot more by a thief than
he was. My roommate not only used my apartment to store his loot, and
got me convicted for it, he then returned to the apartment and stole
everything of mine of any value.

Do I bear my roommate any grudge for that? Yes, even though he was
never convicted for it.

It's also ironic that Doug has no evidence that I was ever convicted
of anything, except my own say-so. He's not very consistent in
whether he believes me. Also, if I were to take him literally, I
could point out that I wasn't convicted of theft, but of burglary.
Theft is actually not an element of burglary.

I could also point out that an essential element of any plea
agreement, as with any other contract, is a meeting of the minds.
It's not sufficient to get someone's signature on a piece of paper by
fraud or coercion. Since there was no such meeting of the minds in
my case, I could argue that by the state's own standards, I was never
actually convicted of anything.

But what's the point in attempting to reason with someone who gets
offended by my choice of Internet account?
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