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Delegating justice just leads to it's erosion. By it's nature justice requires people who give a shit. You can put in as many "lawyer must give a righteous defense" and "judges must uphold the law" in a piece of paper but that's not gonna do much. It will erode with time.I have been saying this for a while but this is the kind of thing that is a symptom of a dying society,
A high trust society leaves blood feud behind and delegates justice to the state - the conviction, investigation and execution parts. It’s a big deal to do that because we have a deeply rooted need for justice. Even monkeys and other animals know if you’ve cheated them and get pissed off by it. It’s a really hard wired need.
And the delegation we have now is an abrogation of both the Anglo Saxon and Roman law systems. The victim and accuser had a lot more input in their trials than they do now. It's was a bit harder for the machine to chew and spit people out as they had a lot more meat to get through.
I think you are missing the forest for the trees. The reality is that the State is built on fiat power. People believe the State has the power to crush them so the People accept the State's decisions to crush them. In reality the State doesn't have enough time and resources to crush everybody. It lacks the resources to even enforce things the People at large support. But what the State does is try to fall like a ton of bricks on anyone who might erode the Fiat Power. The silver lining is that with each silencing more resources are expended and more people are made aware, eroding that power.We can allow the state to do the justice stuff IF and only if we FEEL that justice is actually done. When we start to see things like CEOs acting in ways that kill people with no pushback, we feel that deeply. It’s exactly the same with things like in the uk where people who DO bad things, like killers and nonces, are getting no jail time while people who SAY things the state doesn’t like get locked up. Or the summer of love, or Anita’s forty but mainly peaceful protests. It’s not fair.