We have a system
We have a system of justice in [the US] that treats you much better if you’re rich and guilty than if you’re poor and innocent. Wealth, not culpability, shapes outcomes. Bryan Stevenson
Culpability
The rush to attribute
The rush to attribute culpability to a minority after an act of mass murder is a rush to exonerate the general public – how can we specify the ways in which the killer was not “one of us”? When the shooter comes from a racial or religious group, this is a relatively simple if despicable … Read more
God is not necessary
God is not necessary to create culpability, or to punish. Our fellow men are enough for that, helped by ourselves. Albert Camus
A trial cannot be
A trial cannot be conducted by announcing the general culpability of a civilization. Only the actual deeds which, at least, stank in the nostrils of the entire world were brought to judgment. Albert Camus