Would you be willing to do away with your justice system and put your fate in the hands of the people?

Question

I call the justice system the injustice system because it is the justice systems place to protect criminals from justice.

Where I live the people judge and sentence you, crime is almost nonexistant for good reason.

If you commit a crime and the police can't get to you fast enough to protect and serve you, you'll know the true justice system is swift and unmerciful.

The community caught a rapist a few years ago and hung him, while he was being hung they stuck lit matches up his nose and told him to smell hell. They are in the process of tracking down a thief at the present time, wonder what fate awaits them.

Do you think the world would be a better place if everyone answered to the people for thier crimes?

Answer 1

No, mainly because 'the people' are stupid, easily excitable, and even more easily led to be convinced of things that simply aren't true. The entire concept of 'due process of law' means that everybody gets as fair a shot as possible at having actual justice being done to them, as opposed as somebody screaming "THIEF THIEF!" at a random shopper at a bazaar who then finds themselves the subject of an impromptu amputation. I can't help but wonder what ****ed up 'community' you belong do.

What you're advocating is more accurately called "mob rule" or just plain savagery - how do you know for a fact that the 'rapist' was actually a rapist? Because somebody else said so? The entire point of due process is to make sure that the person being punished is actually guilty of the crime they're accused of.

Answer 2

We are all given the free will to choose between the right and wrong. It is said that humans are born innately good but he has the freedom to choose which way he wants to trudge on.

Justice is a process to which the less or even the exigious are given the chance to live and be part of the system. Some are denied yet it is still a process. And who serves justice? Apparently, nobody is perfect! The irony of equal justice is that, it is being served with no objectivity. No matter how the person is perfectly mulled over it, he still biased.

I would still prefer what is existing for it is hereby granted with authority to gauge between the culprits and the emptied. No matter how hard to follow the flux, it would still prevail...

Answer 3

With or without a justice system it is still people judging people. One way is civilized which means only that the laws are recorded in writing and expected to be the same each time. The other is uncivilized meaning that it is not written down and subject to the whims of people. Both make mistakes and can punish the wrong people. Both can kill. Both are enacted by humans.

Answer 4

I wonder which is more impartial and willing to consider such trifling minutiae as the potential of recidivism and reform, a trained judge or an angry mob?

Public justice is a hell of a lot simpler than what we have now, but it turns the very concept of justice into something liquid and mutable, changed depending on community and leadership. I mean, I do kind of like knowing that even if I stumble into the wrong end of Canada no one would be able to chop off my hands for stealing (well, do so lawfully).

Answer 5

No, I think we should have a legal system. However, I do think the legal system needs to be restructured.

Answer 6

the justice system si by the people.

Answer 7

No all you end up with is witch hunts on some form of another

Answer 8

the justice system works, like all systems, it has its faults

Answer 9

i live in Texas. our death row has an express lane. i only wish "we interrupt this program to bring you a live execution of*****" crime would drop...

Answer 10

simple answer NO