The HBS host discuss the criminal justice system’s failure to produce morally right outcomes.
The “not guilty” verdicts in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial made plain the often dramatic difference between what is legally permissible and what is morally permissible. In this episode, we talk about where that difference should be maintained and where it should be diminished or abolished.
Mentioned in Episode 35:
- Addams Family Values
- Below Deck
- “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way,” Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
- The Trial of Kyle Rittenhouse
- The Duty to retreat and Wisconsin self-defense statute.