This is a bad bad take. Yes, praise people for doing the ethical thing. Rewarding virtue is pretty much the only sure way to get more of it - ThreadSky

akivamcohen.bsky.social • 76 days ago

This is a bad bad take.

Yes, praise people for doing the ethical thing. Rewarding virtue is pretty much the only sure way to get more of it

Reposted from Cristian Farias

Lastly: Don't praise prosecutors for doing the ethical thing. Also: Don't praise prosecutors, period.

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bakerblue.bsky.social•76 days ago

Agree,kinda basic to praise people for making the hard but right choice. Whatever her political views she acted with integrity..which is something we don’t often get to say now-a-days..

discoveryattorney.net•76 days ago

Absolutely.

jimmyparks.bsky.social•76 days ago

Yes! More ethical actions please.

benfranklinskite.bsky.social•76 days ago

Exactly.

bknox.bsky.social•76 days ago

The weird thing is that he appears to praise a prosecutor for doing the ethical thing just two posts earlier in the thread.

tim-doin-tim-stuff.bsky.social•76 days ago

It was the worst of takes. It was the best of the worst of takes.

razortongue.bsky.social•76 days ago

I disagree. Prosecutors are by-and-large just as corrupt as the cops and judges they’re in league with. They’re more concerned with “winning” than “justice” and giving them a pat on the head for doing the bare minimum isn’t helping anyone.

scparks50.bsky.social•76 days ago

Reinforcing positive behavior strengthens it amd is likely you will get More, both from that person and others.

atticus59914029.bsky.social•76 days ago

It’s a radical, extremist position.

Prosecutors, ethical prosecutors are vital to justice. There’s no utopia. There are very bad people out there who need to be prosecuted so the rest of us can live peacefully.

dino-monster.bsky.social•76 days ago

Heritage Foundation members doing the right thing for the first time ever shouldn’t be given a parade while everyone else is just expected to do the right thing.

punchywombat.bsky.social•76 days ago

Agreed. It's such a weird take. There is no legal system without prosecutors and having ethical ones is far better than having unethical ones. Encourage what you want in the world.

caramia5.bsky.social•75 days ago

We need to contend with the fact that our bottomless cynicism has brought us to a pretty dangerous place.

danbongard.bsky.social•76 days ago

It is a sad comment on America that praising prosecutors for doing the ethical thing is necessary, yes. But it is necessary.

It is like praising a recovering addict for not getting high this week. It isn't something a normal person needs, but positive re-enforcement works.

k-e-v-i-n-d.bsky.social•76 days ago

+1

I approve this message

thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social•76 days ago

Very, very tired of this reflexive childish "prosecutor = cop" mentality.

noneofyourbusyness.bsky.social•76 days ago

I am onboard with ACAB and will admit there are times you need a bastard.

The problem is that you are not guaranteed a bastard, they sometimes send a monster.

We need more Hockey style Enforcers on the team. Purity is what is destroying everything.

thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social•76 days ago

My position is that even historically non-carceral societies still have *someone* (beadle, medjay, magistrate, etc.) selected to uphold the public good, and "non-carceral" does not mean, "no courts."

gendergoblinhelen.bsky.social•76 days ago

especially when Adams is a literal cop himself! I thought prosecuting cops when they break the law to enrich themselves was good!

brandostarkey.bsky.social•76 days ago

It’s moronic.

danlather.bsky.social•76 days ago

I'm not a fan of prosecutors because they frequently do shitty things. If I only criticize them when they do shitty things and don't acknowledge when they get it right, what am I even doing?

law16118.bsky.social•76 days ago

This situation is one of the few things giving me hope right now

credle.bsky.social•76 days ago

I get what you are saying but I also don't want a fedsoc ag under a democratic president (if we ever get that again) slow walking corruption charges just because they didn't get the privilege of prosecuting an influential black liberal politician

politiburb.bsky.social•76 days ago

You are inventing a Democrat to get mad at rather than praising the people actually putting their asses on the line to fight Donald Trump's corruption.

youtackything.bsky.social•76 days ago

So we can't praise Sassoon for writing a kick-ass letter and resigning because someday a President MIGHT appoint her AG? Dude.

ed3d.net•76 days ago

what does that have to do with literally anything?

credle.bsky.social•76 days ago

Am I crazy for suggesting that Merrick garlands political affiliations led to him slow walking trump to get us to the situation we have today? And he got his ag position largely because he was seen as a noble victim of Republican intransigence

yaseppochi.bsky.social•76 days ago

Not crazy, just polishing a turd in public. The known facts are way overdetermined—there are dozens of plausible theories of how Garland got to the strategy he adopted.
So this is the wannabe progressive version of “just asking questions”. Do better.

akivamcohen.bsky.social•76 days ago

Yes

ksiegel.bsky.social•76 days ago

Why would we get a Federalist Society AG under a Democratic president? We can praise someone for an ethical act without lionizing them and asking for their leadership.

timothystamm101.bsky.social•76 days ago

Who said we're doing that? Yes, push Democrats who are in power to not side with the Federalist Society unless it is agreeing with our views and only them and don't appoint one or their people to any position of power. Also, if you've been paying attention you would know that Adams ain't a liberal.

tylerboschert.bsky.social•76 days ago

"fedsoc ag under a democratic president"

walk me through how we wind up in that scenario

credle.bsky.social•76 days ago

https://fedsoc.org/contributors/merrick-garland

politiburb.bsky.social•76 days ago

ed3d.net•76 days ago

> A person listed as a contributor has spoken or otherwise participated in Federalist Society events, publications, or multimedia presentations. A person's appearance on this list does not imply any other endorsement or relationship between the person and the Federalist Society

can you fucking read

tylerboschert.bsky.social•76 days ago

"A person listed as a contributor has spoken or otherwise participated in Federalist Society events, publications, or multimedia presentations. A person's appearance on this list does not imply any other endorsement or relationship between the person and the Federalist Society."

tylerboschert.bsky.social•76 days ago

I guarantee you that almost any high-ranking government federal government lawyer, regardless of political bent, has spoken at a FedSoc event a time or two. My Crim Law professor, who is a *literal Marxist*, spoke at several of them when I was in law school.

oceanbound.bsky.social•76 days ago

Watching people disagree with you by bringing up points that actually *support* what you are saying here is fun.

dicools.bsky.social•76 days ago

Horrible take.

saukfish.bsky.social•76 days ago

His take is indefensible, and is explicable only as a product of the type of blind contempt for law enforcement that is pretty much a mirror image of the blind support for it that he (justifiably) loathes.

mattg.path.pub•76 days ago

This idea of "no points for doing the right thing that is rarely done" is such a weirdly anti-science leftist view.
It's like denying climate change or a round earth.

helenopinion.bsky.social•75 days ago

One of the most annoying things right now is seeing the left say things like "but DEI is just making sure everyone's treated fairly" and thinking "yes, why didn't you sell it like that in the first place?"

timothystamm101.bsky.social•76 days ago

It's literally anti-behaviorist because we don't like that some people need incentives to do things. However, behaviorist psychology has proven results. If you reward desired behavior, you will get more of it.

jkfecke.bsky.social•76 days ago

And if you pointedly don't reward it, people will shape their behavior by looking to the people that will.

neotiamat99.bsky.social•76 days ago

Also, it's not like this is a reward which requires a lot out of us. No one's asking us for policy concessions or donations or anything, we can just say nice things for a few days.

danmanatt.bsky.social•76 days ago

Ethics and virtue of any kind are a beacon of hope in Trump 2.0

mfreeman.bsky.social•76 days ago

Leaving your job on principle is a 10 minute standing O. Easy thing to goad, extremely difficult to do.

candidgamera.bsky.social•76 days ago

100%. Always praise behavior you want to see. It's free, and people really respond to it!

agwim.bsky.social•76 days ago

Those prosecutors are going to the proverbial barricades, en masse. The numbers make it seem as though they have the support of the substantial East Coast lawyer network, ie the establishment.

Anyone who goes to the front line to fight the injustice is a hero, but especially the first ones to go.

izzos.us•76 days ago

Add Bove to the list of people who needs some bar complaints filed against them...

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