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Erin Kissane | 1 years ago (raw) | export | reply | flag 
 A nice thing about Quakers is they can rock up to protect climate activists with legal precedent established because of them in…1670

https://www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-events/news/quakers-stand-up-for-vital-legal-precedent-established-in-1670-quaker-trial
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Erin Kissane | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 (Internet Brain Syndrome compels me to note that I have complicated feelings about conscience rules—they’re double-edged and have been deployed in terrible ways. But I like the Quakers here.)
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Carolyn | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @06f01dd0 So a person can be proven guilty but a juror can discount that because they think it should be ok for a man to rape a wife, etc?

I guess that's part of jury selection, but...