Monday, September 28, 2009
Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway.
Some people ask, are law and justice the same thing? In my opinion, law and justice is not the same thing, although they do go hand in hand. Furthermore, each one relies on the other. We have laws to protect the community and to keep everything in order and when one breaks one of these laws they have to suffer some sort of punishment or serve justice depending on the seriousness of the violation. Our law and justice work as a system; without one the other is not effective. If there were no law, justice would be ineffective. People could violate a law but then they would have no justice to serve. If there were no justice to serve, the law would be pointless to have because one could violate a law or regulation and not receive any form of justice or consequence, end of story. People would just be able to do what they wanted and get away with it. Eventually the people would start taking law and justice into their own hands by making their own laws to abide by and punishments for those laws. This would get pretty ridiculous in a very short amount of time. Society as a whole would not be able to function. In the end, this is the meaning for our system. Law and justice work together hand in hand, but there is a difference between the two. Let me know what you think!
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Fascinating, Cole! Are you learning this in your studies for police work?
ReplyDeleteJustice is very slippery because it can be subjective. What do you think of vigilante justice?
You can serve the law, but that doesn't always mean you're serving justice. The law in many cases in the U.S. is unfortunaly unjust. However, we cannot change the law effectively in this country so the best we can do to serve justice is to follow the law. That doesn't mean that we should obey what we don't beleive in or choose it just means that you should do what you're told to a certain extent.
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