J.D. Tuccille weighs in on the Plaxico Burress case.In the end, toughening penalties for violating laws that offend people's sense of liberty, justice and common sense doesn't actually improve the viability of those laws. Instead, it widens the gap between how politicians want people to behave, and how those people actually live their lives. It also encourages popular contempt toward government and the law.
That contempt is probably a good thing.
Thursday, December 4, 2008