My 0.02. The fallacy in the shady argument is you&#x27;re justifying a bigger wrong with the much smaller one. It&#x27;s like saying &quot;if she didn&#x27;t want to be raped she shouldn&#x27;t have worn that short skirt&quot; (i.e. blaming the victim).<p>It&#x27;s guys like these, that although inadvertently, when they get snarled in asset forfeiture and choose to fight the system, they slowly induce change. And that matters. This is why states like Minnesota, New Mexico, and North Carolina, with Ohio on tap, are banning the practice before conviction.<p>(Disclaimer: I don&#x27;t downvote either. I can&#x27;t downvote right now anyway, but I think it detracts from the conversation.)