lawful but awful

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英文释义

短语
  1. Morally questionable but legally allowed.
    — For example, consider the “lawful but awful” shootings plaguing black communities across the country. If public safety requires a police force that is given carte blanche to brutalize its citizens, the government should have to state so on the record and defend its reasoning.

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