That is the media's problem, and should be tackled directly, instead of creating a higher authority to fight our fights for us. Also, "mob justice" is highly exaggerated, and applies just as equally to the people in the law system itself. Afraid of getting lynched by the racist supremacists? You should be more afraid of the racist judge.
You're the one being hypocritical here. You acknowledge that human ethics and morality is subjective, but the system of law subjugates the opinions of a majority to the opinions of a few, which is enforced so coercively that it might as well be a religion. The argument that "public opinion can be distorted" can be equally applied to the lawyers presenting the case. We don't need other people to argue and interpret for us; we can do that ourselves, thank you very much.
And this "The majority of people, like you, hate lawyers because they're a combination of two things, ignorant and jealous" is just sour grapes. And this "You don't even have a base understanding of why they need to exist" is just arrogance, as if the law's own ideological justification for itself is The One True Path.
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That is the media's problem, and should be tackled directly, instead of creating a higher authority to fight our fights for us. Also, "mob justice" is highly exaggerated, and applies just as equally to the people in the law system itself. Afraid of getting lynched by the racist supremacists? You should be more afraid of the racist judge.
You're the one being hypocritical here. You acknowledge that human ethics and morality is subjective, but the system of law subjugates the opinions of a majority to the opinions of a few, which is enforced so coercively that it might as well be a religion. The argument that "public opinion can be distorted" can be equally applied to the lawyers presenting the case. We don't need other people to argue and interpret for us; we can do that ourselves, thank you very much. And this "The majority of people, like you, hate lawyers because they're a combination of two things, ignorant and jealous" is just sour grapes. And this "You don't even have a base understanding of why they need to exist" is just arrogance, as if the law's own ideological justification for itself is The One True Path.