Justice And Law

[Marc Clifton]

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote:

As both is human decision, both sucks...

Amen! Marc

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[Marc Clifton]

Justice is the enforcement of the law, which is a replacement for people figuring out on their own what is right and wrong, and as such, both point to essentially the non-existence (it never has existed, actually) of intelligent life on this planet. Marc

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[jschell]

OriginalGriff wrote:

Law is not the same as justice: the law of many countries lets the guilty go free, or with a "slap on the wrist" when they deserve better justice.

Except of course justice is subjective. What is justice for one is injustice for another. The law of course is dependent upon humans so it cannot and will not be perfect.

[jschell]

Roger Wright wrote:

By your reasoning, keeping black slaves ...

When one looks back one must look back at the entirety. Ignoring the entirety when examining the specific probably is not "just" no more so than a court that refuses to consider any mitigating circumstances.

Roger Wright wrote:

and beating American Indian children in the Indian Schools

This of course is just one example of where one should at least consider the entirety. Beatings in school in many forms occurred in most if not all US schools for much of the US history. So to examine the justice in this case one would need to find comparable examples, look at the reasons for the discipline and determine if the discipline was extreme or comparable for the time. It is not sufficient to show for example that such students were beaten for something like using native american languages in classroom unless one can show that children in other parts of the nation were not beaten for similar transgressions. Also one must consider that at least at one time even in the US even in the work place one might be beaten. Additionally even now there are states that do not ban corporal punishment in schools. In 2006 there were over 200,000 students who were subjected to corporal punishment in the US. (Although to be fair given the goal of the link below it is possible that the numbers might be less than authentic but I would suspect that it is still not zero.) http://www.stophitting.com/index.php?page=statesbanning[^]

[Lost User]

That guy that played Judge Dredd in that movie talks alot like the guy that plays McCoy in the last 2 Star Trek Movies.

[Pete OHanlon]

Imagine that.

[Mark_Wallace]

Honour.

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