true about the raising part.
But a mother who loses her child in battle, the child joined up of his own free will. He knew that was a def risk. He didn’t just get framed for something he had no part in. Just because he was at the wrong time/place.
Ideals are one thing, but when its you dancing on the end of the noose, maybe not quite as clear cut.
I stand by what I said. A populace that demands perfection from its legal system will get the opposite — no justice for an unjustly disproportionate number of the victims or their families.
Obsessing over justice for the criminal instead of justice for the victims and their families is what has gotten us in the shape we are in. Always thinking about someone’s feeeeeeelings instead of blind justice and right and wrong.
Can we afford to continue allowing hideous rapes and abuses by parolees or the exonerated-on-a-technicality in cases where there has been overwhelming proof? I am not talking about circumstantial evidence cases here, but solid video and DNA evidence and non-coerced confessions.
There is perfection only in heaven. As long as our justice system make every possible effort not to convict the innocent, we should condemn this practice of getting the obviously guilty off on technicalities and appeals to sentiment or utopianism. If one innocent dies so that thousands can live with justice instead of injustice, is that not preferable?
We should not take any pleasure in it, nor allow any railroading or withheld evidence — police or prosecutors who do that should also receive all due justice.