"The 5th amendment prohibits the courts from doing it, and even if it didn't I would still think it was wrong."
No, it does not. The fifth amendment does not allow you to hide or destroy evidence. You can be ordered to produce things in your possession that you are hiding. It's not a game where the fifth amendment says "well, if you hide a murder weapon well enough, ..."
The founders believed the same, and that's how the fifth was written.
If the police can prove you are in possession of something, and that you are the single owner/controller, you can be ordered to produce it, because the goal is not to enable evidence hiding, but to avoid things like "torture".
The fifth amendment literally says a person cannot be compelled to give "witness against himself".
It is referring to testimonial situations, like being put on the stand in your own trial.
You are welcome to thing "this is wrong". You are welcome to try to convince society of this. So far, not enough of society has bought it that it has been changed.
You are always welcome to think things are immoral, but that does not change what they actually say or mean.
No, it does not. The fifth amendment does not allow you to hide or destroy evidence. You can be ordered to produce things in your possession that you are hiding. It's not a game where the fifth amendment says "well, if you hide a murder weapon well enough, ..."
The founders believed the same, and that's how the fifth was written.
If the police can prove you are in possession of something, and that you are the single owner/controller, you can be ordered to produce it, because the goal is not to enable evidence hiding, but to avoid things like "torture".
The fifth amendment literally says a person cannot be compelled to give "witness against himself".
It is referring to testimonial situations, like being put on the stand in your own trial.
You are welcome to thing "this is wrong". You are welcome to try to convince society of this. So far, not enough of society has bought it that it has been changed.
You are always welcome to think things are immoral, but that does not change what they actually say or mean.