05-13-2008
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Originally Posted by 10inchtim  How would you react? | My view of justice is that it must transcend the individual...not by force or by mandate, but by dint of personal will.
Yes, the prospect of such a trial would be horrifying...but worse is the notion that such horror goes unanswered, or that the consequences fall onto the wrong person.
For justice to prevail, I must be personally willing to endure the smaller agonies in my own mind to ensure that no greater injuries to the victim nor to our society go unresolved. We aren't only a nation of individuals sharing space...we're a society of people that rely on each other to maintain our values and institutions (in the Maslow sense, rather than the neo-con sense). |
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