Timeline for What criminal laws apply only to certain sectors of the populace on account of their biology?
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| May 15, 2016 at 14:58 | comment | added | Nate Eldredge | You are also assuming, without giving justification, that "stupidity" is a function of biology. | |
| Nov 3, 2015 at 17:52 | comment | added | chasly - supports Monica | I would accept this if you could cite some legal definition of 'stupid'. I suppose that there may be laws protecting people who have some form of congenital mental incompetency. | |
| Nov 3, 2015 at 13:19 | comment | added | feetwet♦ | That sounds like a reductio ad absurdum of the "unequal outcomes evidence unequal treatment" argument. | |
| Nov 3, 2015 at 7:36 | comment | added | Dale M♦ | @feetwet theoretically laws are applied equally; practically if a disproportionate part of the population are affected by the law then the theory is breaking down. | |
| Nov 3, 2015 at 4:28 | comment | added | feetwet♦ | The laws do not apply differently to stupid people. (Actually, if anything, the most mentally impaired are exempt from prosecution.) Noting that a particular segment disproportionately breaks laws doesn't exactly seem to answer the question. E.g., those convicted of violent crime are overwhelmingly men, but the laws broken apply equally to women. | |
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| Nov 3, 2015 at 3:52 | history | answered | Dale M♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |