The modern judicial system is an inherently flawed system which was never meant to help the poor, common person.
If a person got wronged by someone, he can't get him apprehended directly. To get his justice, he has to sue him. After that, he needs to gather enough evidence to make a compelling case. Then, he has to get a lawyer who will be the main representative of his stance. And then the process proceeds to the actual matter.
In all of this, the original act of the wrongdoing loses its sense of severity and meaning and instead becomes a technical shitshow of who has the best access to resources, lawyer firms and understanding of legal loopholes.
Every day, we hear about cases which have been going on for decades without showing any tangible progress. Poor widows going to the courts every week to fight for their rightful land which has been occupied by either some family goon or a powerful political person.
Every day, we hear about families protesting at intersections for justice of the killing of their fathers and brothers and sons due to religious conflicts, racism or provincial segregations.
Every day, we hear from our friends how their father got pushed out of his business from the very uncle he started it in partnership with and they can't do anything about it simply because he either spoofed some contracts and used a legal/technical loophole or just enforced it using his influence.
Why is it that when a commoner gets cheated, he can't go to a representative of the public judicial body directly and explain his case? Why does he have to jump through all of the hoops, while carrying the burden of the sorrow itself? Whereas a wealthy, powerful person could simply hit up his personal lawyer on his speed dial who will use his own connections to deal with these kinds of matters swiftly.
The biggest crime in this whole situation is not the added barrier of a freaking lawyer you need to hire to represent your case, but it's the fact that hiring a lawyer is a must if you want any solid chance of getting justice. You made the law and the justice system so complex that a commoner simply cannot fight his own case. He can never understand the legal legislature and speak for himself. We took the justice system, structured and modified it to become a specific occupational niche like other professions, to supposedly make it 'better', but during all this,
We took away the very thing which asserted the need for this justice system, to provide a wheel the weak could turn to fight the wrong but strong.
The system also affects the weak in individual aspect as well. A person in a beat-up, old and barely working car gets fined the same amount for breaking a traffic law as a person in the latest electric car.
How is that fair?
How is any of this fair?
On top of all this, I haven't even touched the main point of view which is the inspiration of this quote. And that's the moral aspect of the punishment of a crime.
Why do pedophiles don't get their head cut off? Why do rapists don't get castrated? Why do murderers don't get hanged? Rape and sexual abuse absolutely destroy a person from the inside and changes the course of their life forever. It's literally the murder of a person's self, he or she will never be the same again, forever carrying the weight of that incident their entire life. The PTSD and scars from that never fade completely. Murdering someone is ending their existence as a whole using your might, simply because you can.
Why does a person, who fully consciously decided to take a life, either through killing or abuse, gets x number of years in a jail? Why does our humanity start to tense up when we consider adding the death penalty for crimes like these, and yet it doesn't flinch when we think about the victims and their families? (I'm looking at you, UN)
Is it not fair, an eye for an eye? They say it would leave the world blind, but a world in which the gift of sight ignores injustice, it's better that it's blinded forever.
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