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> A purely mechanistic justice system would, I suspect, rapidly be seen to be not worthy of the name. It would be a parody of the name. Justice depends on cont
by brookst 3y ago
> A purely mechanistic justice system would, I suspect, rapidly be seen to be not worthy of the name.
It would be a parody of the name. Justice depends on context. The world is too complicated for any set of mechanistic rules to cover every possible context.
Attempts to remove context from justice end badly at best and are often intentionally abused to leverage the “justice” system as a weapon.
- ExoticPearTree 3y agoThat's why we have the phrase: the letter and the spirit of the law. Because sometimes the letter of the law is, in certain circumstances, in contradiction with the spirit of the law.