Bruno

Discussion (3) ¬

1. 
   Peter Rogan

   April 23, 2018 at 1:17 pm | #

   It’s not a matter of law, but a matter of justice. Laws tend to be written to thwart acts or persons deemed unacceptable — child porn, murder, bank fraud, Jews — and as such do not encompass all situations, sometimes to laughable extremes.

   Justice, on the other hand, is the appeal to fairness — sometimes in direct contravention to the written law, which can be proven unjust and work substantial harm on the population. Rest assured that if you wait for law to protect and preserve your rights, today there would be no such thing as a free American Negro, and gays would be in work camps with mandatory ID chips and their crimes tattooed on their foreheads.

   So before you go off on ‘judicial activism’… remember the Holocaust was perfectly legal. And so were lynchings. And involuntary sterilization, once the law in a majority of US states: cf. https://www.uvm.edu/~lkaelber/eugenics/
2. 
   llirium

   April 24, 2018 at 10:24 am | #

   Laws are flawed because humanity is flawed. Not to be too negative, but that’s why law has to evolve with us, because over time it will inevitably be used against us if it doesn’t change and grow as well.

   But there’s also good reason why laws can’t be changed too easily and that difficulty is often abused, too.
3. 
   Peter Rogan

   April 24, 2018 at 7:38 pm | #

   And that’s why the need for justice will never end. Never. For which we all should be grateful.