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Originally Posted by Plaedo
You are basically saying "s*** happens."
To add to one of CorsiHockeyLeague's points made earlier, in my opinion internet mob justice is not unlike the Salem Witch Hunts. People incite each other with a limited set of facts, often the subject is someone they do not personally know or fully understand or empathize with, which leads to group think, which leads to outcomes that are not rationally just (or in other words, can not be codified and meted to all other equivalent individuals in equivalent scenarios and still be considered just). To illustrate how I define "rationally just," as an exercise, the outcomes must be generally acceptable if suddenly the perpetrator was someone you loved and cared for. If Miller was suddenly your brother or nephew, in a Canadian legal environment, would the events that transpired be acceptable to you, and would you want that to occur to all other equivalents going forward?
Given the facts, for me it all seems too harsh as well, and that an injustice has been served, or true justice robbed. If people think this has hit the bullseye of justice, then they must disagree with the Canadian justice system, and they must think that these outcomes should be meted to all equivalent situations. It is fine if they do. But if they think the outcomes in this case have been truly just, but don't agree that it should be applied to all other equivalent situations, then they are morally dishonest.
How it would be put into criminal code is another issue, but this is an exercise of introspection to see if one is being rationally just.
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You know in the Salem Witch Hunt, those folks weren't witches, right? No evidence of their witchery? Miller is nothing like those folks. He was in fact convicted of his crimes, tried to "apologize" to the NHL teams to better his chances of being drafted with no evidence of any contrition? I don't think those facts are at issue, but let me know if they are in dispute.
As for the "loved one" exercise. Yes, I would be appalled if a relation of mine acted in this way. I would have sought him to make amends. Failing that, I don't think the consequences were that great, not that surprising.
(None of which has anything to do with the Canadian Criminal Code! I don't know why that is even brought up!)