(December 6, 2015 at 7:25 am)Whateverist the White Wrote: That and I just hate to enable the racist haters who are out to incarcerate or kill as many black men as possible. The system is far from fool proof and we have far too many fools.
The system will never be fool proof. Even if we discard poverty and not being able to get a qualified defense. Even if we got rid of racism. Mistakes will be made. And in a life or death situation, mistakes are potentially fatal.
As a person, I can understand the need for revenge. Especially on the side of the victim's relatives. I'm sure, I could kill anyone, hurting my loved ones, with my bare hands. But it's not the state's business to carry out my revenge. The state's business is to keep society as safe as possible. And that's just as easily achieved by locking them up.