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Originally posted by RatherThanWords
The american legal system is wonderful in the aspect that one is innocent until proven guilty. Surely some people fall through the cracks, but for the most part the guilty are where they belong.
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In the legal eye things are perfect, but from the public standpoint the views are reversed. Most often it's "guilty until proven innocent." That, however, really comes around from the media and their tendency to oversensationalize everything for the quick ratings fix.
Often times the proof of guilt is less than 100%, sometimes it's closer to 50% and it's up to a
supposedly unbiased jury to return a fair verdict. So again, what is considered fair when the guilty and non guilty choice could swing either way? You can't answer that and have everyone be pleased. You can't really ever arrive at a decision that will same "fair" for the parties involved, there will always be at least one person who finds one decision unfair for some particular action... Or are we just going by the majority rule here? If 50.00000000000001% of a group says it's fair, then it's fair?
I honestly don't think that you can have a
truely fair repercussion for an action. You can't appease everyone.