Justice is dispassionate. To advocate doing bodily harm to another person because they have done bodily harm to someone else isn't justice. It's revenge. Without the cooling structures of the court system, it's vigilantism.
REB, you can despise the damn lawyers all you want, but without them, we have what they have in Baghdad and Palestine today: blood feuds with endless cycles of revenge.
Life in prison without possibility of parole will keep a person off the streets. If later evidence exculpates a convicted person, which has happened, none of us will have to consider our own guilt in supporting the murder (or maiming) of an innocent person so that we could believe the world is a safer place.
The victims never have returned to them what they lost regardless of what is done to people convicted of the crimes against them.
Recommended: Reread To Kill a Mockingbird, to reflect upon the efficacy of passion as a vehicle of justice.
Current Events » in reply to re: Sorry MA, but I get I get very passionate about this.
To both REB and Martha: Passion is the point.
The whole thread (35 posts)
- Winning hearts and minds...
- re: Winning hearts and minds...
- This " xxxx years in prison with parole" has never worked for me.
- Mandatory castration for convicted rapists. (n/t)
- That could be for the first offense.
- And if you could assure me that our justice system is infallible, I might agree.
- I agree.
- Another side of the issue
- The Christian approach to the death penalty.
- re: And if you could assure me that our justice system is infallible, I might agree.
- Jail time was ment for rehabilitation. Is it really working?
- And if you could assure me that our justice system is infallible, I might agree.
- That could be for the first offense.
- Mandatory castration for convicted rapists. (n/t)
- This " xxxx years in prison with parole" has never worked for me.
- re: Winning hearts and minds...