7 Heavenly Virtues: Justice

[margdean at erols.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 14838

Yes, I'm responding to a rather old post, but I've been having a
wonderful time reading over Peg Kerr's essays and the responses to
them, and this particular response cried out for an answer:


--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Rita Winston" <catlady at w...> wrote:
 
> 3) It may have been unfair to convict Jr with the evidence presented 
> and it may have been cruelly heartless of Crouch Sr to convict his 
> own son -- but it was the correct thing to do. Being as how he was 
> both guilty and a danger to the public. That is a question under 
> Justice: what to do when the unjust action is the correct action?

That's why it's so important, as Peg pointed out, to KNOW THE WHOLE
STORY.  If Crouch, Sr. had handed down his sentence on the basis of
full knowledge rather than the faulty evidence he did act on, I really
doubt he would later have succumbed to his wife's pleas on Barty Jr.'s
behalf.  As it was, I strongly suspect that he later doubted the
justice of his own action, and felt guilty.  

Justice =has= to be based on truth, or it will go awry.


--Margaret Dean
  <margdean at erols.com>