(February 9, 2013 at 6:27 am)Aractus Wrote: If you're doing something illegal, and something bad happens to you, your rights to compensation are either reduced or completely diminished. If you're high on drugs and you get assaulted, that's too fucking bad for you, you should have thought about that before you got high. Courts don't exist to help people who are doing illegal things, they exist to help people who do the right thing.No, at least in America, and I would hope most of the secular west there is a presumption of innocence. Compassion in dealing with people who do the wrong thing, rather than say what Iran or China does with their accused, is what separates democracies from fascist states.
Pretty much the same thing that your insurance company would do if you were DUI and had an accident.
Having been falsely accused, when I was a kid in private school, and having that entire student body hate me for ending a play day, over something I did not do, your attitude is scary. You protect the wrongdoers, not because they are innocent, you protect them because you yourself would want the same if accused yourself.
Courts are there to protect rights, everyone's rights, even the accused.
