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We call it a justice system, but it's not. It's a legal system. That was my point. Once you start trying to dispense justice you fail.
by tsotha 13y ago
We call it a justice system, but it's not. It's a legal system. That was my point. Once you start trying to dispense justice you fail.
- wpietri 13y agoSo? We have sewage systems, but their purpose is health. Imperfect systems are how we work toward ideals. We evaluate the legal system in large part by whether the outcomes are just. For example, the revision of the three strikes law in California is happening because a number of people have received obviously unjust sentences. And we got the law in the first place because many people thought that letting serial offenders free to harm people again was unjust. "Equitable" is another one of those ideals, and that it is just as subjective as justice or health. But we can work toward it.