I want you to do something for me, don't worry I'm not gonna tell you to get up and do something. This one can be done right here and now. Picture your most cherished, the singular person who you love. It could be a family member, a friend, a lover. It could be your dad, your daughter, wife, or your best friend since childhood. Picture them, let them linger in your mind till you can't help but smile. Do you have them?
Good, now picture someone hurting them...
Picture them in the hospital, they're sobbing or in a coma. They're covered in bandages, they're really badly hurt. Can you feel that sink in your heart? Can you feel that sink fill with rage once you find out someone did this to them, and meant it? Imagine what you would do to this person, the one who hurt your most dear. Don't hold back, be honest with yourself and let the first thought be your answer...
Pretty violent isn't it?
This is why we have the Justice System, why we take the power to punish out of the hands of those wronged, and into the hands of the community. It's because we have those kneejerk reactions. Those swells of rage and hatred, we become less than man. We fill with adrenalin and can't possibly be rational... The slow methodical way out justice system works is meant to temper that fury, temper the hate and the anger. Till at the end all there are is what was done, and what needs to be done.
Justice isn't just about punishing the wicked, it's also about protecting them as well. Making sure the people who do horrible things are treated fairly... Making sure they don't suffer for more than what they did. Justice is a balancing act, thus the scale in Lady Justice's hand. Justice is impartial, thus the blindfold over Lady Justice's eyes. Justice is also powerful, and when it comes, the sword that Lady Justice carries will come to use.
You can talk all you want about corruption in the courts, lawyers manipulating obscure laws to get their clients off free or with less penalty. But at it's heart, our justice system is cold, it's methodical, it's slow, and it's right.
"We can judge a country by the way it treats its prisoners." Winston Churchill
2 comments:
It's odd how easy a person can forget we have that system to fall back on. Many like to think we are all alone in bad situation. The truth is that the law WILL take care of us if we let it. Many also mix up the Law System and the Laws enforced and passed by politics. Some laws are unfair and down right corrupt, but our system is there because it works.
Im not sure about the US Justice system, but Im sure its the same as Canada, and just like everything else, it has its good & bad points.
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