Bye 2016. WILTW: Dec. 25–31, 2016
If we suspended the presumption of innocence, would we be repudiating the foundations of our criminal justice system? Would the prosecution still be held to the standard of proof beyond reasonable doubt? If not, is that not potentially a terrible thing — for if we could use those measures to convict those we strongly suspect of embezzling public funds, could they not be quickly abused and turned against innocent people the state disapproves of?
It is in the stillness of the mind that great ideas are born and chaos is conquered. You can’t conquer chaos with chaos but when chaos meets silence it dwindles into nothingness until it becomes itself silence. Chaos may not exist forever but silence can exist for eternity.
The Marshall Project compiled some of their favorite criminal stories and reporting of the year. It’s by no means a comprehensive list, but in a year of big headlines, you might have missed some of them.
So what if this mind doesn’t work exactly how X,Y and Z’s do? It makes no sense to try to use them as a reference point. You can only work with what you have, so you might as well work towards an achievable goal for yourself without the added pressure of comparison.
“If you feel the need to thank me, the next time you see someone in trouble, you help them out. That will pay me back amply.”
“Part of the problem seems to be that nobody these days is content to merely put their dent in the universe. No, they have to own the universe. It’s not enough to be in the market, they have to dominate it. It’s not enough to serve customers, they have to capture them…”
“You can have one person, for instance, who cares very deeply for their friends and family and would go to the ends of the earth for these people, and yet they don’t, say, give a dime to foreign charity. And then you’ve got another person who spends their entire life donating money overseas, yet in their interpersonal life, perhaps they don’t treat their family members very well. In those cases, how do you compare who’s more moral?”
Here’s to a more successful 2017
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Nsuaha.
