Innocent until proven guilty is the foundation of modern Western justice.
The recent round of sexual harassment lynch mob activity reminds me of the South Park episode where all the adults have been put in prison because the kids have accused them of touching them in a bad place. Of course the kids revert back into ‘Lord of the Flies’ tribalism.
We may not be to far from that now. The Senate is already stampeding.
“Innocent until proven guilty is the foundation of modern Western justice.”
Justice? Hmmmm....justice, justice, jus — OH, THAT!
Yeah — no, they don’t teach justice in Law school, anymore; haven’t for more than forty years. The lessons are all about legal philosophy, and definitions, and engineered legality. It’s been SO long since justice was a core element of the legal profession that there’s now an entire generation of attorneys and judges firmly ensconced in practice who have ZERO grasp of the concept.
We’ve no Justice system; we’ve a legal system (barely), which — if it does actually ever produce justice, does so only by sheer accident.