[HelenTay]

Originally posted by Blaupanzer
You actually wish to correct the basic maxim that the rich are treated differently, no matter the form of government? If you had a ghost of a chance at actually bringing that about, you'd be dead by sunset. The laws are applied in a somewhat haphazard way, but every effort to improve that entails making the relevant law somewhat more complex. Eventually, this accretion of little fixes adds up to a system that requires full-time professionals to interpret. The fact that these same folks (lawyers) make the law as well as interpret it brings us to where we are today.

I raised "trial by combat" only as a way to demonstrate a simple legal system. No, I do not think the current legal system is always either just nor fair, but I am at a loss as to another basic system that is not based on superstition (Sharia law) or on irrelevent factors (trial by combat or trial by fire or dunking, et al). Okay, but we're smart people here, and most are sufficiently narcissistic to believe that we know better than everybody else.

So I guess I'm challenging y'all to come up with something better than innocent men on Death Row, while people like OJ walk away from double murders.