The Law isn't Justice, it is Procedure

It is not about responsibility--whether it was your job to do something and you failed to accomplish the deed. More so, I think of it as whether you had the opportunity to do something and failed to perform in this given window of potential.

There is one lesson of the law that everyone should learn: For the whole, there must be individual failings. Society prospers at the blemishes of "ones." We stick to the procedure of the law because, overall, it produces net benefits. Yet, what about those case-specific instances where the procedure fails the truth and falls flat of justice? Oh well, we just let those slide. Because, the Economist would say, cost-benefit analysis shows that, as a whole, the one individual is less than the whole (the latter that benefits). The gross benefit of society outweigh the loss of the "one."

Try knowing the "one." Try surrounding yourself on a daily basis with those "ones." The Economist is the academic, with his head in Cloud 9, untethered to the land. He is the man who works blindly on the basis of procedure and thinks in theoretics. He has forgotten the Rule of Our Existence: There is no Perfection. Only a strive towards the unattainable state, a pursuit that ensued at the moment of the Fall.

I am sad because today, because I know a "one" and his story. And the likely end of it, too.