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> I really wish we could plan for these entirely foreseeable events ahead of time so that it's not just cases of "selective justice" with regards to who gets bailed out.

That’s an unrealistic utopian fantasy. The real world doesn’t even remotely lend itself to that kind of planning.

Even calling it “selective justice” involves an unrealistic bias. What is happening is that the particular circumstances are being weighed an a suitable response is being formulated.

The rulebook for planning for all such events ahead of time would not be that much shorter than the future history of human civilization.




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