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To: Road Walker who wrote (529838)	11/17/2009 2:38:48 PM
From: one_less	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575420

I was commenting on your evaluation of the justice system. A system which you seem to have judged as flawed and to somehow know which people in jail shouldn't be there and which people out of jail should be in jail. I suppose many of us, maybe all of us have similar feelings about the system. My perception is further that most commentary and efforts to change the system has as much effect as worrying about how to care for a stump in the forest, while the forest itself is being destroyed. The problem as I see it is in what we believe should be done. For example, arguing over the care/punishment of the career criminals, mass murders and child rapists types endlessly, as if the left wing view or the right wing view of those issues is worth the resources we waste wrangling over it, while having no confidence in the system at large in the first place, is equal to focusing on the care of the stump, in this metaphor. If the system was actually sound and effective in the first place the priorities of effort might make sense. Under the circumstances as you pointed out they don't. I've merely attempted to refocus for you where our priorities ought to be lain. You do know what a metaphor is don't you? "A justice system should, at a minimum, give society the confidence that outcomes are just. What is just then? Just is the perception that crimes are resolved, that individuals and society have been reconciled to a condition of fairness bound in peaceful coexistence. With this society's members are most likely to respect laws and the system that serves to bring justice where breeches occur. With no confidence in the system, we have dysfunction in justice where members lose respect for law from basic traffic to prospering materially. Focusing on the the politics of Justice is losing the forest to save a tree stump. >>>"WTF are you talking about?" What is it you find confusing about that?