Comment on Jury unanimously acquits Churchill statue spray-painter

• Zensate@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yes, because our system isn’t designed for justice. The police doesn’t try to find the truth, they just try to find someone to charge. The defender doesn’t try to find the truth,but to escape conviction for his client, likewise with the prosecutor. The judge is there to follow the law as well as possible, there is bobody that cares about justice.

  The very idea that you need a prosecutor and a defender makes no sense if you think about it. At sociey that wanted justice would just have a. Bunch of expert colaborate to find the truth and sentence based on that.

  The idea that the process of justice must be carried out like a competition in which both sides are trying to trip each other up and trying to win at any cost through manipulation and omission with no regards to truth or justice means that the system has no interest in either.

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  • FishFace@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Edgy. There are standard arguments for why an adversarial legal system tends to achieve good outcomes. I’m not really interested in digging up standard arguments though so I guess we’ll leave it here.

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    • Zensate@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Sure, there are many arguments, but the statistics don’t lie. A hostile police force, an adversarial legal system, only leads to miscarriages of justice.

      It’s just an extension of capitalism; if you can get away with it your action are legitimized regardless of what you did. It’s the paradigm of the End justifying the means.

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      • FishFace@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        You are not arguing in a way that will convince me. Please leave me alone if that’s the only way you know how.

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