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Steven Pinker's Aid in Jeffrey Epstein's Legal Defense

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Re: Steven Pinker's Aid in Jeffrey Epstein's Legal Defense

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Totally, but he wasn't even getting paid to be the attorney. He was doing favors.

Hmm, good point. An unanswered question is why are judges and juries swayed by testimony or opinion which goes contrary to the spirit of the law, unless the law is unjust. I mean in this case, it appears to have rested on how certain things in the analogue world always meant something but then when it goes on to the digital world it should take on different meaning. Obviously this is sensitive and has controversy, bu…

Maybe Pinker is the type of thinker who doesn’t care about the relevance or repercussions of his ideas. But then why is he world renown and constantly in the limelight?

Re: Steven Pinker's Aid in Jeffrey Epstein's Legal Defense

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Pinker claims to now have known what the case was for. Fine.

Pinker offered the opinion to Dershowitz and was not aware who was the subject in the case.

His outward lack of curiosity in this instance is quite curious.

Re: Steven Pinker's Aid in Jeffrey Epstein's Legal Defense

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hmm, good point. An unanswered question is why are judges and juries swayed by testimony or opinion which goes contrary to the spirit of the law, unless the law is unjust. I mean in this case, it appears to have rested on how certain things in the analogue world always meant something but then when it goes on to the digital world it should take on different meaning. Obviously this is sensitive and has controversy, bu…

Maybe Pinker is the type of thinker who doesn’t care about the relevance or repercussions of his ideas. But then why is he world renown and constantly in the limelight?

Sometimes I feel like I’m being downvoted and flagged by bots from people I’ve upset in the past with my arguments. Starting to hate this place.
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