@light @oliversampson Should we care about the values and interests of sinners? When you curdle a human being into a noun, you obscure the human, but even humans who have done hateful things — to some degree all of us — still count. That doesn’t mean we have to collectively agree. A murderer might argue we should not punish him because reasons. We might hear him out and punish him anyway. But we owe him, like everyone else, a genuine hearing. 1/

@light @oliversampson And, like all of us, he has values beyond his sin. His perspective on land use or taxation or food safety is not rendered worthless because of his sin. He owes what our justice system deems him to owe, but he remains a human being, not an object or a nullity. /fin