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Mercy or justice?

Justice.

Both. You can't have one without the other in my mind.

I was kind of tempted to answer this, but it felt like cheating. :P

In honesty, though: you're in law school, right? so I'd be really curious to hear you unpack your response a little bit.

uh, okay, so I believe in justice. I do believe that there are laws and that people should follow them (some laws are good, some are not). I also believe that there are some crimes for which punishment is appropriate. But I also believe in rehabilitation and in mercy. And I believe that justice should always be tempered with mercy (and also that there can be no mercy without some action mercy is being granted for and therefore some sense of right and wrong and justice).

Of course, depending on what we are talking about, I'm going to lean more towards one or the other. I'm less likely to want mercy when we're talking about a sex crime. And I"m much more likely to want mercy if we're talking about, say, an undocumented immigrant who has been here for years and has a life and doesn't want to be deported.

Makes sense!

Justice, because most of the time when I think someone needs mercy it's because true justice isn't being served (i.e. they're being punished out of proportion to what they deserve.)

Actually though this question is kind of complicated because we all have different definitions of justice to some extent. I'm very anti-capital punishment. There are limits to what I think you should do to another person, at which point committing more crimes won't make me increase punishment, if that makes sense. For example, kill five people or ten, either way, life without parole. And mostly just to keep them off the streets because someone who'd kill others in cold blood won't respond to corrective action anyway. And my definition of justice doesn't include "eye for an eye", i.e. inflicting punishment because that somehow cancels or "rights" the wrong they did. That doesn't make any sense to me at all. So maybe by a more classical definition I'd have to answer mercy... :|a

Both don't really have meanings that aren't totally circumstantial.

But still, I go with mercy, 100%.

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