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It's the technical mindset: the court order from Southern California is wrong, let's fix it!



Ha, you're right. It's like he was trying to "debug" this problem. PSA dear readers: civil damages are about proximate cause, not root cause.


Shouldn't this be the case though? Isn't that how the population /wants/ the problem to be fixed? Look at various TV BS court dramas where people behave in a way the population expects them to (versus what actually happens... and no, Phoenix Wright isn't an example since it's interactive).




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