Reply #68: There are some who claim the system is 'just' merely because ...

[TahitiNut]

... the outcome is the outcome. In other words, whatever happens is de facto "justice" because the only legitimate criterion is the system itself. That's a little bit like saying an airplane that crashes must be OK because that's what it did - it ignores the original moral justification behind the system's design and rejects the principles and values held most dear by those under whose authority the system exists in the first place.

In a more limited sense, this is what's fundamentally flawed in assessing our "system of (legal) justice" ... when people ignore fact in favor of process. No system can be tolerated that's not subject to a "Total Quality Management" process and monitoring outcomes as symptoms of malfunctions. This is the attitude that gave us the Dark Ages - an authoritarian subservience of even human conscience to the exaltation of the system-as-God.