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Ginti ([personal profile] nullorvoid) wrote in [personal profile] adai 2015-10-05 04:03 am (UTC)

No it's definitely better to not remember things like that all the time, some people go through life thinking that everyone around them is evil and that always leads to really bad life choices later down the line. So it's probably better to think that everyone's mostly good as opposed to thinking everyone's terrible. I still don't really think people can be either, but most humans don't really get that.

As for the justice system, it depends on where you live. It's pretty much a bunch of people who make sure that laws are followed. Like the police here, there are some of those cop girls in blue skirts wandering around and all of them are called Jessie or Janice or something? ...Jenny. I think they're all Jenny. But those people are part of the justice system here. If you do something illegal like stealing or attacking cities or whatever and they catch you, they can arrest you and put you in jail. Stuff like that.

Some places don't have one at all. In the place that guy came from, he was a cop, which means he was in charge of arresting people suspected of breaking the law. After he arrested them, he was supposed to bring them to court, where the person who supposedly broke the law can either confess to doing it, or they can try to say that they didn't, but if they do that they have to prove that they didn't. There are people who are appointed to help argue that - that's their job, it's what they do with their lives, they review cases where it looks like someone broke the law, and they take the case in front of an impartial person whose job it is to hear stuff like this and make decisions about it, and they try to prove whether the person is innocent or guilty.

It's not the cop's job to decide whether someone is innocent or guilty and it's definitely not his job to kill them after witnessing stuff like that, he's supposed to take them to court and give them a fair trial because where he's from it's important to treat everyone equally like that - just because you might have done something bad it doesn't mean you're not a person anymore, you still have rights and killing you on the spot takes those rights away.

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