How Is There Justice? How can we say we have a justice system when innocent people are pretty much forced to plead guilty or no contest to a crime they did not commit? You don't think about a situation like that much until it's knocking on your back door. It happens everyday. That's why there should have to be definitive evidence and not just circumstantial. Things aren't always what they appear to be and without knowing someone there is no way possible to be able to make the right call. Therefore we have innocent people out a whole lot of money and a record when they have done nothing wrong. Never done anything criminal in their life. How do we call this justice?
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Justice is idealistic Justice is not possible in this world. We are born with various capabilities and into various circumstances. Who we are is dependent on gene-environment interaction. We are judged by society based upon things we cannot control, skin color, appearance, etc and treated accordingly. The notion of justice is completely idealistic. When it comes to the court system, incarceration is a necessary evil. In no way is justice served when someone is incarcerated regardless of the crime they committed, our behavior is determined by gene environmental interaction. In many ways incarceration is an injustice regardless of the crime committed, unless the focus is on rehabilitation.
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Justice is inconsistent at best and therefore does not truly exist. Jaques Derrida brilliantly explains this to us through his philosophy of deconstructionism. Either Justice operates based on a history of cases (precedent) and does not take in to account the the varying factors that change from case to case thus operating mechanically or, justice takes in to account individual circumstances but then produces inconsistent rulings. Either way, the world is ultimately unjust because it either operates as a machine with no emotions or mercy or is inconsistent and therefore unjust to those who are treated harsher.
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Despite everything we do injustice can be found everywhere. One can start at schools and then look how corrupt is a government almost all global governments and as such the legal system covers up whatever they do.
We also have unfair laws that arent being changed because other countries are more powerful than the ones who take the short straw.
In the end one might say the justice-injustice situation is pretty depressing.
Look around you injustice everywhere what are you doing about it?
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No, I work in a prison, and the inconsistencies in imposed sentences are appalling. I realize justice is a very broad and subjective term. I am only addressing my beliefs from personal experience on my job. I don't understand how a man can kill his baby, and then do less than four years in prison. Yet, another man can rob a store with a toy gun, and get nearly a life sentence. That is so much time that he will be an old man when he gets out. It doesn't seem fair. Killing a baby is murder. Animal abusers, our future serial killers, get a slap on the wrist, if that. It's sickening. I should probably say that I do not think race plays a major role in sentencing. I'm not sure exactly what does, except money. Sometimes, I wonder what judges are thinking. In closing, I believe sentences should be "across the board", and if you do this, then you get x number of years. There can be no true justice on this Earth for murder. Just ask the family of a victim. However, harsher sentencing and an end to revolving door prisons would be a step in the right direction.
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Justice is a human invention, and it only exists in our minds. Justice is just a concept created by humans. There is no natural law of justice, only a flawed system created by flawed people. The evidence suggests instead that injustice exists - just as much, if not more than justice. I think that nature is the arbiter of real justice - dictating life and death for most creatures on this Earth.
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There is no justice because life just isn't fair. The law is unfair. Justice means that things are ended fairly and people get what they actually deserve. This doesn't happen when it comes to court systems. A criminal doesn't always get what they deserve and the victim looses more then what they could have ever expected and of course don't deserve. How could justice exist when this happens.
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No, not in this life. True justice does not exist in this life, or on this planet. We aren't even the distributors of justice. That is left up to our Creator. Small instances of pacifying justice-like events take place every day. But, real justice will not be seen, or created, in the secular world. Justice is something so complicated, valuable and complex that we could never get it right anyways.
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I was assaulted. Suffered a brain injury. Assailant lied when I was unable to defend myself. Went by ambu,ance to the hospital. Suspect lied to police. Police believed him. DA believed him. Case closed. Had texts from assailant that proved he lied. Still didn't matter. And Oj Simpson got off too. Something needs to change in our justice system. Victims stay victims time and time again. My only hope is Karma. God knows!
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First hand experience The legal system of the United States is supported by laws, written by lawyers to support lawyers. Judges are, former lawyers corrupted by the desire to perpetuate the system that created them.
Example, win a malpractice case against your lawyer does not give you any rights to argue, you were not adequately represented in court.
Example: The number one former occupation of members of congress are lawyers.
Example: The typical lawyer earns 10 times the average American, so how does Congress represent America?
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