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And the disproportion between crime and punishment which emerges draws the sympathy of the general population away from the government to the offender.
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Harold J. Laski
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Laski discusses how disproportionate responses to crime can shift public sympathy away from the government and towards offenders.
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We grant toleration in one part of the field only to deny it in another.
The essence of the persecuting position is always that the persecutor has hold of truth and that he would betray its service by allowing it to be questioned.
He is able, accordingly, to indulge in the twofold luxury not only of preserving his own authority, but also of assisting the persons attacked to enter, if they so choose, the way of truth.
To deny novelty or grievance a right of expression is a certain, if, indeed, an ultimate, validation of the truth they contain.
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