Justice is a tool societies make use of
to placate misery and punish social deviants
and in theory it is the medium by which any
society feels itself protected and secure
yet meting out justice is far more complex
than a simple declaration of state utility.
Victims of criminal acts look to the state
to enforce laws critical to ensure security
of the person, the state and its metrics of
prosperity, where trials are held and those
malefactors within society are held to account
to be punished for the grief they bring to
others. And when justice imprisons a
convicted murderer it it just; when through
misadventure an errant citizen causes the
death of another, remorseful and psychically
injured by his very own inadvertence yet
found guilty by a reluctant jury, then what
results is a fateful finding profiting neither
society, the injured or the hapless accused.
guilt
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