Punishing the guilty vs equal standards

[ProgKing of the North]

Ok, I know my title was retarded. Let's say there's two groups, the Retardlicants and the Dumbocraps in some sort of Congress. Both sides are corrupt as fuck, but Dumbocraps always get away with it while Retardlicants mostly seem to get prosecuted. Is it better that at least half of the corrupt bastards are getting caught, or if one side is getting away with it should the other?

This isn't about Orange Man, and in this scenario, both sides are equally provably guilty at about the same rate, so don't sperg at me about how your side actually isn't as bad.

 

[dopy]

laws are for taxpayers, jail is for poor people

 

[A Cardboard Box]

Sounds like judicial tyranny, which is bad.

 

[Coke Pope]

laws are for taxpayers, jail is for poor people

Last time I checked everyone without exception pays taxes

 

[NOT Sword Fighter Super]

I say split the difference and kill both sides.

 

[Shaved Kiwis]

Last time I checked everyone without exception pays taxes

Plenty of people don't pay taxes. Like all them billionaires that helped write the tax code. Or for example a tard living with their parents that doesn't work wouldn't need to pay shit. He wouldn't even technically have to file. His parents will list them as a dependent on their tax forms and that will be the end of it. I'm pretty sure most homeless people don't bother with taxes either. Unless we are talking shit like sales tax in which case I'd still want to argue some extreme edge cases because I'm bored and I've got nothing better to do.

 

[Lemmingwise]

If both sides are equally guilty and only one side gets penalized for it, then that should tell you something about the comparative strength of those two sides.

In some sense that's worse than no penalization at all, because without it, at least a balance of power remains that occupies their time (so they have less time buttfuck you and me).

The more the balance of power shifts in one direction (whichever), the more power centralizes and the deeper corruption grows.

 

[WeWuzFinns]

Replicants are just an another side of the shekel. The other side, dredditors are not any better. Time to get rid of this fiat shekel and go back to the gold standard.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

Equal standards is better (but not by much). Only enforcing the law on one part of the population will cause the other to commit worse crimes and always take the easy way (example, muslim crime in uk), which will end bloodily when the other population has enough.
At least having no standards lets the other population has a fighting chance.

 

[LazyLizard]

just let them keep getting away with it until it becomes to much and people start rising up and a civil war starts.

 

[Spooky Bones]

Government necessitates corruption. Processes used to alleviate government abuses are akin to giving junkies clean needles to shoot dope to prevent the spread of AIDS. The junkies are still shooting dope. In politics, both sides are hilariously corrupt. The only thing to do in this day and age is to figure out what issues you won't compromise on, pick a side, and fight dirty as fuck. Go ahead, be a gargantuan hypocrite and freak out about the other side doing what your side has been doing for decades. As long as it will pass muster. All that matters are the issues. You have corrupt people in government? Weaponize them or get rid of them, depending on your views and theirs.

 

[Emperor Julian]

might be a better formed arguement if the 'Retardlicants' didnt constantly get away with it as well.

It never ceases to amaze how many defences of the Retardlicants start with "well here's why the Dumbocraps are worse." as though that's anything resembling validation.