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[โ€“] Fisk400@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

everyone should be considered innocent until proven guilty.

Yes, absolutely. But the thing is that a lot of things are proven during trials that are immoral but not illegal. He could still have done a ton of indefensible stuff that makes him a bad person but still get a not guilty verdict. My point is that "Not being a criminal" is the lowest tier we should judge a person. If we are going to give a person a large amount of money and influence we are allowed to ask for more.

[โ€“] u_tamtam@programming.dev 0 points 1 year ago

Yep, I get the sentiment, but it's up to us to make amoral things illegal by means of democratic representation (assuming you live in a democratic country). It's just slower, but that's kind of the whole point of this :)