George Zimmerman F***ed up

[caseymoz]

33. Really? Have you forgotten that nothing's perfect?

Last edited Thu Mar 22, 2012, 05:15 AM - Edit history (3)

If somebody commits a homicide and it looks like it might not have been in self-defense or justifiable, that is, it's suggestive but not clear cut, then it has to be investigated and probably prosecuted. Otherwise, how would the court, or anyone, determine if the the homicide was justifiable? Either that, or murder isn't always important enough for authorities to look into.

And you're saying prosecution is an injustice? It becomes an injustice when you're innocent but get convicted anyway. Otherwise, if you proceed from the notion that prosecution itself is an injustice, the whole system of jurisprudence becomes unworkable, and you have to start from scratch, which will take an awful long time to redesign and rebuild. (That's not to say that there aren't wrongful, harassing prosecutions. Different subject.)

You have to consider prosecution an unfortunate, terrible ordeal, but not an injustice until it reaches an unjust outcome.

If you try to perfect our system to keep justifiable homicides from even being prosecuted, because less than perfect is broken, you have to do things like change the definition of "justifiable" to something different than what has been understood in Common Law for centuries, that's SYG.

The unintended consequence of this is you make homicide, in general, less of an earth-shaking matter than it's always been. That is, the life of the person is not important enough to be your last resort. Well, if it's not your last resort, which resort is it? It isn't easy for police to recognize if a homicide is justifiable unless it's the last resort.

Moreover, if homicide of any sort isn't offensive enough to a person that they wouldn't attempt to run from it first, how ethical might they be otherwise? People don't realize the implications that they're supporting with this law. They think they could have it without its consequences.

And those consequences are why Zimmerman was allowed to walk away from the scene and will be now be allowed to get away scot-free. Last I checked, gun-righters didn't like coddling criminals. Man, they'll enjoy cuddling Zimmerman.