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It is wildly harmful and an escalation of monstrous practices to look at one or several unjust actions and/or sentences and declare that those who do worse than the person who was dealt out such a retribution should receive an even longer sentence.

If someone gets 10 years for smoking weed, the solution is not to put someone in prison for 20 years for punching someone.

>>t-writ+(OP)
I wasn't implying that either Ulbricht or Madoff's sentences were unjust.

>>t-writ+(OP)
On the same principle, noting that someone who punched someone got one day in jail is not a good justification for why someone shouldn't get two days in jail for smoking weed.

>>cbsmit+VP
I know this is all semantics, but my State made weed legal a while ago. So the justification for smoking weed -> Jail is a whole lot higher.

>>johnny+1I2
It's not all semantics. You are providing an entirely different justification for why someone shouldn't get two days in jail for smoking weed.

>>cbsmit+ch3
I imagine "because it's not illegal" is semantics because I know that that's not a law on every state nor country.