Because it doesn't matter whether the map "looks" fair. It needs to have two majority Black districts to comply with the court order. And those two districts are probably not going to elect Republicans.

That's like saying "This broken iPhone 13 sold on eBay for only $80. That's a big problem."

An LLC paid $25K because the bank owning the home was willing to sell it for $25K. And that's not because the bank hated money. If someone else had been willing to pay more then it would have sold for more. That's how foreclosure auctions work.

Foreclosed homes generally sell for a lot less because the occupant often causes a legal and physical mess and most home buyers are not interested in dealing with it.

It mysteriously acquired an additional window.

You may trust your own judgement, but do you trust the judgment of literally everyone in the world?

Recently a woman was killed by someone who was offended by her rainbow flag. Last year, a teenager killed a boyfriend who wanted to break up with her.

Today, those are the actions only of unstable people. But they would become the norm if you allow everyone to be judge, jury, and executioner. How long do you suppose an LGBTQ person would survive in Idaho?

You said you would not send anyone to prison but cannot offer any alternatives.

Now let me tell you why a policy of not punishing people like Lucy Letby is a terrible idea. She would become a target of revenge-minded people, possibly even the parents of the infants she killed.

She would be tortured and/or killed by individuals who felt justice hadn't been done. After all, if Lucy Letby doesn't face serious repercussions for her actions, then her killer has no reason to worry either.

For better or worse, people demand retribution. Government must provide it, otherwise people will take matters into their own hands.

Her diary said that she enjoyed watching parents suffer and that she knew she was evil.

What other factors would be relevant?

She murdered seven infants. What more information would you need in this case?

Would you punish her or sentence her at all? If so, how?

What do you plan to do with murderers and rapists?

Exile is no longer an option, because no other country will allow them in. And everyone has already been told from a young age that murder and rape are unacceptable.

They weren't stealing content until now.

Peer review is a general principle that goes beyond the formalities of journal publication.

Even if you never submit your work to a peer-reviewed journal, your scientific claims will be judged by a community of scientific peers. If your work is not accepted by your scientific peers, then you are not contributing to scientific knowledge.

For example, most homeopathic claims are never submitted to journals. They are nevertheless judged by the scientific community, and are not persuasive enough to be accepted as scientific knowledge.

Science is based on peer review, which means that a scientific opinion will be accepted only if it can convince a sufficient number of other scientists. This is not too different from using an explicit voting system to rank answers.

All scientists accept the possibility that what they currently believe to be true may one day be considered false. Science does not pretend to describe only eternal truths. So it's not a problem if the most popular answer today becomes the least popular answer in the future, or vice versa.