If justice is blind, how can it see the truth?
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Well that's why they say it--\n\nJustice rarely sees the truth.\n\nthanks\nShadowhawk--
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Those liable to humanity must answer for what they did was wrong.  The International Court of Justice must take cognizance of their wrongdoings.
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LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL WHO CAN AFFORD IT \n\n GUILTY UNTIL PROVEN INNOCENT \n unfortunately that is how the law really works
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Justice is justice, the timing is not the issue.
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This is a good question.  \n\nSimple answer:  All religions are based on faith.  Once you accept that religion, on faith, it is truth to you, but not necessarily truth to other people.\n\nThe same is true of each and every one of your perceptions, they are real and true to you, but, other people may not accept your perceptions.  \n\nThus to find truth, you need to look for it.  Let's say you never have prayed or meditated, and thus do not believe in spiritual experiences.  However, some else has prayed or meditated and has had some spiritual experience.  Then you have 2 different and independent truths, don't you.  \n\nHowever, in a court of law with jury, which truth would have the greatest defense?  You cannot disprove spirituality if you have never experienced it.  However, if you have experienced it then it is true for you, and others like you.  A court and jury would have to rule that spirituality appears to exist.  All a skeptic has to understand, that in their reality, their mind, they are not looking for spirituality, in fact they are actively against it at times, thus they will never see it, and that is ok, it is their choice. \n\nThus, truth in religion is "faith that becomes truth" only for those who believe in the religion.
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Justice will anger some.  So what
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The legal system is fraught with inequities. Punishments never seem to fit the crime. I think I have come up with a somewhat novel approach.\nI suggest we take a "one size fits all" approach to crime and punishment.\nWe will determine guilt or innocence in open court.\nInnocent men will go free\n(for the most part, hopefully).\nJustice will be served.\n\nhere's the good part.\n\nAnyone who is determined guilty in open court of any offense:drunk driving, reckless endangerment, shoplifting, jaywalking, public nudity, obscenity etc. and so on \nad nauseum.\nWill face the one penalty allowed under law.\n\nThe penalty for all crimes will be death.It does not matter what the crime is. If you are guilty of it you forfeit your life.\n\nNow who is going to be able to call that unfair.
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Ideologically, the criminal. In the real world however, this is practically impossible. This is due to natural bias' the occur from judge to judge. That is, it would be hard to have fair and balenced judgements with various opinions making those decisons.
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As an interested observer (law student) I'd have to say: Not much, except by accident.\n\nMost public laws are about setting community standards and enforcing particular points of view. Occasionally, those laws are based on an enlightened objective sense of what is best for everyone, to ensure which is fairness and equality. That is one definition of justice.\n\nHowever, more often than not, laws are made because a majority of people believe one way and seek to force everyone else to adhere to their beliefs. This is the classic "Might Makes Right" approach of a partisan democracy. In other words, whoever is in the majority gets to make the rules, regardless of what the minority thinks.\n\nIf you happen to be in the majority on any given issue, then the ruling may look like justice to you. But if you are not, then being forced to do something that you don't approve just because you are in the minority doesn't sound like justice to me.\n\nCouple of examples:\n\nIs it justice to be able to hold people indefinitely, without access to an attorney, without charges, and without a trial -- just becomes one official designates that person as a threat? Apparently, it is legal (see Jose Padilla, Gito, etc.) But I don't think it is just.\n\nOr take the recent law sponsored by Senator McCain which outlaws torture. 89 (of 100) Senators voted in favor of that law. To me, prohibiting torture is a good step towards justice. But 10 Senators voted AGAINST that law, saying that torture is OK in some situations. How is that just?
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Being religious does not blind people to truth. It constrains and biases their thinking just like culture, social context, upbringing, education, etc. do. I think all of us, whether religious or not, are biased in the way we think and to that extent distort truth.\n\nWhat is unique about religion is that a set of things are held to be true on the basis of faith rather than scientific reasoning.
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it is so easy to find someone guilty and give them the death penalty, but how can anyone know for certain if that someone is guilty or innocent?\ngiving a guilty person the death penalty is an echo of the saying in the Bible..'an eye for an eye'. he who kills must be killed - right?\nbut then if that happens, they get executed straight away and they get away with the traumas of life afterwards, they don't have to think about what they have done anymore,do they?  the famillies of those killed will always have to live with the trauma that has been put on them, they will never forget what happened...\nyou will always find that a lot of people don't feel any remorse at all, but are given the chance to think about what they have done for a time,before they are put to death. the worst thing about the death penalty...are they absolutely positive they have enough evidence to prove that the person is guilty? we have all known of the stories about innocent people dying for something they didn't do. \nthe good thing about the death penalty is...it clears a space in our prisons, and the tax-payers money isn't being wasted on trying to re-habilitate those people who will, quite possibly,get released early and do it again.
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"Truth and fairness" is the best translation, I think. \nIf the author had meant "justice" he would have used "iustitia".
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There is no true defense, however people choose to turn a blind eye. It sickens me that this is the man that is representing all of us to the rest of the word, and people continue to ignore the truth.
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yes i think this is the real path towards evil, whatever happened to forgiveness? justice belongs in a court of law not in the hands of the revengefully !
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No....we are not bound to what we can/cannot read/see. Better we read and talk about it then say so without reading. Unless you rather not have such things in your head.  I have not read it, but my SIL has and she is a Christian.\nGod judges us by His Law not man made laws. His law is the Ten Commandments.  Nothing should/could persuade us otherwise.\nWhat unsaved people do not realize is we have no boundaries of what we can/cannot do. We have convictions that warn us of the consequences of doing what would be sinful in God's eyes. \nFar as I am concerned:  this book is just another way of trying to make a fool out of Christ.  I don't have to read/see it to know a devil when I hear of one.\nWe have been warned by Godly people.  Even if you do read/see it, mature Christians know the truth.   \nIt is SAD that people will be led down the wrong path that do not yet know the truth.\nNew Christians may just get confused as they are still in the learning stages of growing in Christ.  Better IF they see it to search for the truth as they read their Bible.\nSatan is the author of confusion.  So we already know who is behind it.
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No, justice is only for those who can afford it.  Some want to say that's it's for the real poor also but public defenders are NOT the same has a hired/bought lawyer.  I thought America was for the people by the people but it just seems to me that America is for the politicians, lawyers and rich.  \n\nLet's say you go to court for a traffic  ticket.  Why is it a lawyer can get you a deal but you can't get the deal unless you pay for a lawyer?  I mean why can't I just talk to the judge?  Judges only want to hear from lawyers.  It's real odd to me that the guy ahead of me with the same type of ticket just got his knocked off his record by his lawyer but I go in front of the judge and I can't that same deal.  That's not justice.  That's a business.  You get what you pay for type of deal.  That is not what the judicial system is supposed to be for.\n\nTo be honest I have gone to law school and talked to plenty of legal people and I realize that it just about the numbers.  It's all about wins and losses NOT JUSTICE.
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this is one of those trick questions huh...i mean let's fact it, its never that black and white is it...okay YES! but of course the real answer is that there are varying degrees of justice and sovereignty depends on circumstance...you know what's good for society vs what is good for the individual, etc.