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One of the hallmarks of a justice system is the presence of a neutral judge and a defense attorney. Mob violence is most certainly not just.
by vorpalhex 4y ago
One of the hallmarks of a justice system is the presence of a neutral judge and a defense attorney.
Mob violence is most certainly not just.
- curtisblaine 4y agoAlso the presence of an executive part of the government which enforces law. If that is missing, the justice system is broken just the same. I don't understand why often we find it unfair when mob justice is administered (and it is unfair) but we don't find unfair that the police refuses to administer justice.
- chroma 4y agoI agree with you. The legal system's job is to substitute for vigilantes. In this case the legal system doesn't provide certain services adequately, so the incentives favor vigilantism.
- michael1999 4y agoThe police already foreclosed any access to your justice via budget priority. Now we're discussing various flavours of injustice.
- marcosdumay 4y agoWhat, if you take the GP's comment as true, is very troublesome. But you didn't invalidate the GP in any way.
- kelnos 4y agoVigilantism isn't ideal, but what else is a person to do when law enforcement refuses to do its job? Not sure "just let it go" is a great answer to that.
- nitwit005 4y agoIn that case the US didn't have a justice system until 1963, as that's when people gained a right to a public defender: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gideon_v._Wainwright https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gideon_v._Wainwright Although since the states rarely fund it adequately, you often basically don't have one.