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   Preston Werner (pjw@fediphilosophy.org)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jul-2023 00:48:56 JST Preston Werner

   I want to get out ahead of this before it becomes too much of a politically heated question -
   I am inclined to think that you should be able to be elected to office from prison. Is that the standard view among leftists? Among liberals?

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     Walkaway Friendly Localist 🌿 (woodbark@kolektiva.social)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jul-2023 00:48:50 JST Walkaway Friendly Localist 🌿

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     @pjw no its not a standard view. And I would agree conditionally with your view, when we do the exception to someone sitting for frauding the public and crimes affecting several people.

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     Walkaway Friendly Localist 🌿 (woodbark@kolektiva.social)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jul-2023 01:46:07 JST Walkaway Friendly Localist 🌿

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     @pjw for the first exception: Weaponising this during the election cycle. The person will not have access enough to deal with concerns of voters which does give an unfair disadvantage,

     second exception: at least in my country there are exceptions, when you can hold an office, and I think of things like mass-polluting the environment, war crimes or infrastructure hazards against communities. This does not make someone fit DURING the sentence to be in the office from my perspective.

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     Preston Werner (pjw@fediphilosophy.org)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jul-2023 01:46:08 JST Preston Werner

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     @woodbark That's a sensible view, but I'm curious why you think voters shouldn't just be able to add that into the information they use when making their voting decisions?