week twelve_law and emotion

Laws, to most people are equal to justice, but it may also become an obstacle on the way to the justice that the public commonly admit: sometimes the human emotion is against the settled law as can be proved in many cases.

From my understanding of the lecture given this week, laws are created to simply give an answer as well as solution to those actions of offenses, meanwhile no one can make sure if the solution provided by laws is always the best one. Further more, laws are the production of human thinking and consultation, so it is not strange to see people in different countries, or even various areas of the same country hold very different attitude towards the same law-breaking case, and law setting can differ a lot within a country.

In the perspectives of some people, the sword in Lady Justice's hand can be even more horrifying than the bony hand of the Reaper, especially when it comes to situations relative to someone' life, for the force of law is not allowed to be stained, thus it may seem to be quite impersonal. But after all, laws can be improved, and with the effort made by the whole society, definitely the public will trust the force of laws better and better.

Below is a picture I drew inspired by the idea given in this lecture.

Lady Justice and the Reaper