retroactively charge someone for doing something that was legal when it was done, but later was made illegal. let me ask you this: i believe if we follow your logic to it's conclusion... if some action is currently legal, but is morally wrong.... if this action were to be made illegal: should people who did it back when it was legal be retroactively charged for it? since it always was morally wrong in your opinion. keeping things simple - they should be punished for it if they intended to do something legal but morally wrong. we want to punish immorality. the law is only an application of morality, and if the law was wrong, it should be re-calibrated, retroactively if necessary. one theoretical counter-argument that's used is that the state could then make things retroactively illegal to imprison minorities or dissidents, but this doesn't seem
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