It’s a bizarre statement, because anyone who is an abusive POS is definitely not going to care.
Because they are an abusive POS.
Any shits they give about moral high ground are purely performative, and were long before now - or they wouldn’t be an abusive POS.
It’s like saying ‘if you’re considering the best way to rob a bank, you’re already a bad person and should just stop.’.
Do you think anyone, ever, in the history of people like this would do that? Barring some random conversion to religion or whatever anyway.
It isn’t even preaching to the choir! It’s like, I don’t know, preaching in a brothel? Or at a crime scene? But more hopeless?
Also, evidence gathered by a private party in commission of a crime is almost always acceptable as evidence everywhere, albeit with the caveat that the person responsible may well be prosecuted for that crime. The evidence would just be used in both court cases.
The police (in some jurisdictions like the US) are the only ones typically restricted this way.
Example - burglar breaks into house, finds dead bodies. Tips the cops off. They aren’t going to just throw up their hands and say ‘nothing we can do about it!’ because the guy didn’t have a key.
And if the burglar saw someone run out, they’ll use the burglar to help identify the suspect too.
Albeit with the caveat they’ll of course investigate the burglar too, probably arrest him, and he’s definitely going to be raked over the coals by the defense. Since nothing says ‘impeachable witness’ like a known felon.
Because they are an abusive POS.
Any shits they give about moral high ground are purely performative, and were long before now - or they wouldn’t be an abusive POS.
It’s like saying ‘if you’re considering the best way to rob a bank, you’re already a bad person and should just stop.’.
Do you think anyone, ever, in the history of people like this would do that? Barring some random conversion to religion or whatever anyway.
It isn’t even preaching to the choir! It’s like, I don’t know, preaching in a brothel? Or at a crime scene? But more hopeless?
Also, evidence gathered by a private party in commission of a crime is almost always acceptable as evidence everywhere, albeit with the caveat that the person responsible may well be prosecuted for that crime. The evidence would just be used in both court cases.
The police (in some jurisdictions like the US) are the only ones typically restricted this way.
Example - burglar breaks into house, finds dead bodies. Tips the cops off. They aren’t going to just throw up their hands and say ‘nothing we can do about it!’ because the guy didn’t have a key.
And if the burglar saw someone run out, they’ll use the burglar to help identify the suspect too.
Albeit with the caveat they’ll of course investigate the burglar too, probably arrest him, and he’s definitely going to be raked over the coals by the defense. Since nothing says ‘impeachable witness’ like a known felon.