Ours is an era which craves monsters, which needs demons we can all rail against in an attempt to drum up a feeling of collective moral purpose, however fleeting it might prove. And the pesky exacting standards of the justice system - which are exacting precisely because we used to take very seriously the process of ruining someone’s life by finding him guilty of a crime - get in the way of this desire to find a symbol of evil we can all be disgusted by. This needs saying.
Posted on: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 07:31:01 +0000
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