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I don't think that's true - beliefs like this are down to a human inclination to over-ascribe intentionality to systems. I doubt anyone has sat down and planned
by chimprich 9y ago
I don't think that's true - beliefs like this are down to a human inclination to over-ascribe intentionality to systems. I doubt anyone has sat down and planned a system to disregard justice and make the state stronger. It's a bad state of affairs that has evolved out of well-meaning but ultimately malign pressures such as a desire to be seen to be tough on crime, and save public money by discouraging trials.
- chongli 9y agoWhen I say "true purpose", I am specifically not ascribing intentionality to it. The "true purpose" of a bee's stinger is to defend the hive, regardless of the consequences to the individual bee's life. Bees were not designed by humans, yet aspects of their anatomy can still have a true purpose.
- fjsolwmv 9y agoWhen politicians get Tough on Crime for SuperPredtors and start a War on the Particular Drugs Browm People Prefer , the itentionality becomes bare.
- evincarofautumn 9y agoMaybe “purpose” is the wrong term, but surely the effect of judicial & law enforcement systems is to be the mechanism by which a state metes out “violence” to assert its power & legitimate authority.
- speedplane 9y ago> I doubt anyone has sat down and planned a system to disregard justice and make the state stronger. Only a tyrant would do that. But you still need to recognize that a justice system cannot provide justice unless it has power and credibility. A powerless justice system isn't a justice system at all. So there are definitely instances where "justice" is sacrificed for the sake of the "justice system".