On 5/20/14, Celejar <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, 17 May 2014 21:40:56 +1000 > Zenaan Harkness <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 5/17/14, Slavko <[email protected]> wrote: > ... >> > Don't forget, that justice is not when all criminals are imprisoned >> > and/or punished, but when no one blameless is persecuted. >> >> Very eloquent and beautiful words. >> Thank you Slavko. > > But this is precisely the problem with some of the dogmatic idealists > here - by this logic, we should abolish criminal justice entirely, as > it's virtually impossible to guarantee that "no one blameless" will > ever be "persecuted": > http://www2.law.ucla.edu/volokh/guilty.htm
I don't remember reading the words Slavko posted before, but the way I read it is as: "we must make our best efforts to not persecute blameless people" and "if blameless people are being persecuted, we must make more efforts [eg with our criminal justice system - to fix this problem]". So not abolish criminal justice, but make more efforts in this system to reduce/minimize persecution/punishment of people who should not be punished. Of course perfection cannot be achieved in reality, I agree. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/caosgnsszza7mqcgx0tzenno-ct1+jbglrmfvuqs451-tmtj...@mail.gmail.com
