found online by Raymond
From nojo at Stinque:
America always turns into a bad-faith ethics seminar in moments like this. Where the conversation should be moral — and political — we jump to legal framing. Of course no one is responsible for the deeds of another. Any system of justice that cast implied blame would be heinous, and heinously manipulated. It is the man who sent the pipe bombs whose guilt must be proved in court, not the man who egged him on.
But the law is limited that way, and understandably so. The law is the state, and the state must be constrained.
We are under no such constraints.