RE: Justice - American style
January 6, 2015 at 7:48 pm
(This post was last modified: January 6, 2015 at 7:51 pm by Dystopia.)
(January 6, 2015 at 7:38 pm)KUSA Wrote:Laws are written according with what's best for society, not your personal feelings. If it were, the death penalty would still be allowed because many people wish criminals to be executed.(January 6, 2015 at 7:27 pm)Blackout Wrote: I have to repeat for the 1000th time that the victim's opinion or personal emotional feelings on the sentence are irrelevant to determine the sentence.
Just making a correction. You're welcome.
Generally speaking, emotional feelings are what laws and sentences are based on. Granted it is inconsistent from place to place but still it's a fact.
It's a fact? Give me proof. Old conceptions of what laws should be about since Kant have argued in favour of rationality and what's best for all, what benefits society more.
Your lack of knowledge on [criminal] law doesn't add much to this cause.
To further argue my point, the penal code in my country says specifically that impartiality is a must and presumption of innocent is important, as well as that trials aren't Criminal V. Victim, but Criminal V. Society
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