Amazing. Either I'd never seen this quote before, or didn't understand the huge negative implications of punishing the innocent on society. If innocence isn't

Amazing. Either I'd never seen this quote before, or didn't understand the huge negative implications of punishing the innocent on society. If innocence isn't held in the highest regard, then society itself collapses as people no longer deem it necessary to act in an ethically- and morally-superior manner. I see many signs in modern society that this maxim was ignored.