Yes, justice matters, and a decent society takes a quiet pride in the restitution of criminal wrongs. But is that really what we’re seeing now?
Undeniably, an eye has now been fairly spectacularly taken for an eye, a tooth knocked out for a tooth.
But once upon a time – and not so long ago, either – civilisation prided itself on a judicial infrastructure that extended beyond the tabulation of blood debts, with justice resting not merely on outcomes but, fundamentally, on process: laws, judges, juries – you remember the kind of thing.
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