All well and good,but anybody who is familiar with the juvenile and criminal
courts systems will be more than aware of the incredibly diverse and
increasingly involved litanies which are delivered on the convicted persons
behalf by a stony faced brief or social worker.
My initial feelings of sympathy and even self doubt regarding my very own
humanity have however been diluted somewhat by the sight of crestfallen
convicts giving the thumbs up to family and friends after succeeding in
their attempts to have a lighter sentence imposed by the bench.
Sympathy,Social Consciousness and whatever else is required by society today
can very rapidly be replaced by cynicism and ill regard when one is
constantly requested to accept transferred guilt in order for the actual
transgressor to walk about with nary a blemish on their conscience or
whatever...?