Comment by aussieguy1234
1 month ago
And this is the biggest weakness of the current top down model of governance that we have.
Id like to see a system where judging those who have supposedly done wrong is done almost entirely by the community, not the government. Government/security forces (including police) intervention should be a last resort.
The law has little gaps like this where someone well meaning who is not intending to break a law inadvertently does so.
Minorities tend to have the law applied to them more harshly.
Not everyone has safe access to the legal system, i.e. undocumented migrants.
If you are in a marginalised group and have a crime committed against you, your experience will likely be different compared to what a white heterosexual christian male would experience.
I would also like to see a world where undocumented migrants can report to the police without fear of their residency status, where they are judged by their peers who also may be undocumented migrants, where they are provided the basic necessities as a human right such as food, housing, education, and medical care.
In such a world I would gladly go move to Japan in an undocumented fashion with 30 million of my closest friends and enjoy the human rights of housing, food, and education.
> Id like to see a system where judging those who have supposedly done wrong is done almost entirely by the community, not the government. Government/security forces (including police) intervention should be a last resort.
I'm sure all those children abused by priests will agree with you.
What if the abuse can't be 100% proven but you have multiple victims? In this type of case, the perp gets away with it alot of the time.
However...if judged by the community, its highly unlikely that they would get away with it.
The law fails victims of all kinds of sexual abuse all the time, to the point where most perpetrators get away with it.
Gaps the legal system let some paedophile priests get away with it and also lead to unjust prosecutions like we see in the article.
That's basically the entire premise behind a jury trial.
Well that's the intent anyway.
In reality, the jury has to follow the law as written and there are gaps with various consequences.
If they try to make some ruling outside of the law, it would just get appealed and oveturned.