Saelune said:
@Redrhyno: I want a legal system that actually tries to account for humanity, one that tries to help as many people as possible. That unmakes criminals, not makes them. That serves a positive purpose in society. That makes Law and Justice synonymous with eachother.
Honestly, yes, I think we should revamp our legal system severely every so often. While the US Founding Fathers acknowledged and did their best to make a government that accounted that what is right then wont be right in the future, they did not fully succeed.
I think racists make laws biased towards racists. Certainly are more likely to than non-racists.
Times change, why shouldnt our legal system and government?
Which ours attempts to do when it could actually work. And serves a positive purpose and unmakes criminals? How can someone that keeps talking about the law not taking humans into account not take humans into account when it involves the law? There's alot of programs that attempt to help, but felons aren't wanted by most businesses(and they have solid reasoning for that) and most criminals have to basically leave their support systems behind because people associate with similar people as well. Not to mention there's more than enough felons that just don't have the will to change, whether it be them or just not being interested. It's somewhat similar to mat/pat leave(which I want to clarify, is something good), you want a company to pay you while not contributing to their well-being or being unreliable since, let's be real, you're a felon, you either got mopped up with the 90's drug possession charges, or you fucked up somewhere already. It's a risk that I don't particularly agree with, but I fully understand the reasoning behind it.
So, since you think we should revamp it, can you then tell me how it needs to be severely changed?
And that's the thing, they
can. That's the key thing about most of what I have a problem with in your arguments here. It's not about action->reaction, choice->consequence, you keep going back to some kind of all-encompassing uncaring system, but you're not allowing the negative choices of Man to factor in unless you don't agree with them.
And times do change, as well as our legal system. It's constantly evolving as it is. Child abuse used to be prosecuted through animal abuse laws, which themselves stemmed from property damage laws. There's a legal definition between cake and pie in the U.K. because tax law evolved. Germany allows you to have deadly projectiles classified as toys because they don't have something being accelerated
through a barrel. And it used to ban toy bows and arrows with the stickers as the arrowhead.