Scotland could become one of the first countries to establish a specific crime for mass environmental destruction as championed by late Scots barrister Polly Higgins.
If you have a government that is willing to do that, then they’ll just tyrannize and abuse you in any other way they see fit and you already have huge enough problems for which not having a provision like the kind I’m talking about would not prevent.
You can’t stop tyranny at the expense of injustice. It simply doesn’t work that way. You’ll cause the very tyranny you hope to prevent by destroying people’s faith in a system like that – that’s actually what’s been happening here.
If you have a government that is willing to do that, then they’ll just tyrannize and abuse you in any other way they see fit and you already have huge enough problems for which not having a provision like the kind I’m talking about would not prevent.
You can’t stop tyranny at the expense of injustice. It simply doesn’t work that way. You’ll cause the very tyranny you hope to prevent by destroying people’s faith in a system like that – that’s actually what’s been happening here.