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It is hard to compare financial damage to other types of crimes. They are inherently apples and oranges.

That is to say, there is no quantitative to compare harm from billions of fraud to getting kids hooked on crack.

I mean, you could be the Sacklers and do both?

Yea but crime is a lot like a game of hearts - if you shoot the moon then you're not punished at all.

The problem is there is a quantitative to compare the punishments for each crime. As such we cannot just throw our hands up and say they are incomparable, we have to compare them to the best of our ability.

why exactly do we have to compare them?

The relevant question is does the punishment fit the crime.

How the punishment stacks up against other crimes and punishments doesn't matter.

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