why vigilante justice is wrong?
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Vigilante justice is wrong, only as far as the punishment for the crime. However, you have a DUTY to be a vigilante, to investigate crimes. ... NOT dispensing punishment. If a police officer were to dispense punishment they would be just as criminally liable as any other citizen.
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Very often justice and love are understood as distinct and even opposing values and aims. On the one hand, justice is commonly depicted as harsh judgment, as punishment without mercy. On the other hand, love is perceived as sentimentality where wrong-doing is simply overlooked without consequence.
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The main bias among the jurors is that the defendant is from the slums. It is assumed that just because the defendant is from a lower socioeconomic background that he is more capable of violent behavior, that he just cannot help himself.
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A well-known maxim instructs that justice should be seen to be done. When “seen” is understood in the sense of “observed”, the maxim is easily defended: open court proceedings protect against arbitrary and partial decisions.
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It is clear that with this book Camus fails to prove what he intend. When the murder happens we already know that Meursault is essentially innocent. If the murder is an accident, the sentence is unjust but not a necessary result of Meursault's authentic innocence. If it is a real murder, he deserves his sentence.
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The vast preponderance of the evidence shows that the death penalty is no more effective than imprisonment in deterring murder and that it may even be an incitement to criminal violence. Death-penalty states as a group do not have lower rates of criminal homicide than non-death-penalty states.
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The death penalty is an asset to society; it deters potential criminals as well as serves retribution to criminals, and is in no way immoral. ... It is important that the nation is united on this issue, rather than having some states use capital punishment while others do not.
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The death penalty doesn't deter crime. The death penalty costs taxpayers more than life imprisonment. The inevitability of factual, legal, and moral errors results in a system that must wrongly kill some innocent defendants.
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The suspect is griefing a griefer in retribution. ... The penalty assigned to a suspect is proportional to their behavior.
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Legal wrongs are usually quite clearly defined in the law of a state and/or jurisdiction. ... Moral wrong is an underlying concept for legal wrong. Some moral wrongs are punishable by law, for example, rape or murder. Other moral wrongs have nothing to do with law.
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5) Why does the jury find Tom guilty? The jury's decision to convict Tom Robinson for a crime he clearly did not commit plagues Jem (and many readers) as an intolerable miscarriage of justice. The most obvious reason justice isn't served is because the jury's overwhelming racism prevents Tom from getting a fair trial.
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One of the problems with the YCJA is the philosophy behind the act is that incarceration should be avoided at almost any cost. The thinking is young offenders have a better chance of rehabilitation in the community with supervision than they do in custody.
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The Police Federation has announced that it is calling for changes in relation to rules governing when police officers can, and cannot, pursue criminals who are fleeing via mopeds and motorcycles. ... The police do not want to cause injury to the person(s) on the moped/motorcycle during the pursuit.
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Some states break manslaughter charges into voluntary and involuntary. Others break them down into different degrees, just like with murder. ... This is different from third-degree murder, where the person must act with a depraved mind and malice (wanton disregard for human life).
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Adultery is not a crime in Ghana! Apparently someone forgot to tell Honorable Banni that. They also forgot to tell him that when a person dies intestate, they use the law and not morality to distribute property.
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Equality assumes everyone is the same, has the same abilities/talents, and the same history. Justice doesn't. Justice is about making appropriations towards fairness even in light of past inequality. Equality generally doesn't consider the past.
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In Canada, your actions will always be judged based on how reasonable they are—such as in the Khill case. There are no encoded castle or stand-your-ground laws through which you could bypass having to show that using force was reasonable.