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When economic power begets political power, the state's justice molds to the needs of those with money. Thus, Purdue Pharmaceuticals executives who knowingly misled doctors about the medication OxyContin, causing the explosion of opiate addiction that kills 50,000 people per year, were not even sentenced to a day in jail, but rather paid completely affordable fines both personally and as a corporation. My empathy is with the victims of those kinds of crimes that the powerful have had rewritten into misdemeanors, not with the perpetrators.

You may need to contextualise your statement. Empathy in what sense? There is a nonzero chance the falsely accused might actually get thrown in jail, not to talk about the potentially immense reputational damage that may be difficult to repair. I'm not really sure what you are getting at with your pitch.