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If I had done so, then I would deserve whatever wrath he chose to mete out.

Prison isn't to mete out some kind of dysfunctional revenge fantasy on those who transgress our complex legal code.

Every federal prosecutor should get some portion of the punishments they're so eager to mete out.

The effect was to mete out the limited computational resources.

A mob is inherently incapable of meting out justice, it can only mete out indiscriminate punishment.

Presumably they can mete out secret criminal punishments for violating national security, directly to whoever they gave the NSL to?

How do you objectively compare the societal benefit of a mathematician versus a historian so that you can mete their funding accordingly?I see a lot of "bootstraps" comments in the tech field specifically about the liberal arts and it's a shame.

> mete out secret criminal punishments for violating national security, directly to whoever they gave the NSL toI've read that in the case of the NSA wiretaps, companies were directly threatened with having their executives sent to prison if the taps were disrupted or revealed.

In which case, if you were in such a situation, and therefore less powerful than your superiors who believe the opposite of you, wouldn't you want protection from being removed from your job and livelihood simply because you happened to believe something that went against the grain?If we mete out harsh punishment to people who don't toe the line people become afraid to speak and debate.