#FlashFiveFriday – Justice
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This month Mr B and I are taking part in #FlashFiveFriday run by The Indie Exchange.
#FlashFiveFriday is a weekly flash fiction / flash blogging prompt.
The rules are very simple if you’d like to take part:
1) Write for no longer than five minutes
2) No upper or lower word limits
3) You must write something new
4) You can prepare your post ahead of time but the 5 minute limit still applies
5) If you add your blog post to the weekly linky you must visit five other blogs that week too to show your support
This week’s #FlashFiveFriday post
#FlashFiveFriday – Justice
Dave
I find justice to be very flawed in the UK. Call me controversial but I believe that the bulk of prisoners in this country are not punished harshly enough for their crimes. The life sentence is always a puzzling one. Life should be life but here it translates as a life sentence with a minimum of so many years to be served. Notorious killers, Reggie Kray and Myra Hindley, both served their minimum terms in prison and there was pressure for them to be released them before Hindley died in prison, while Kray was released but only because he was terminally ill.
I hear many stories of justice gone wrong. The infamous case of John Christie who murdered a mother and her child but allowed the husband to be arrested instead and hanged is one of the worst ones. One of the crimes I am sensitive about is burglaries. In my mind you should be able to use whatever force necessary to protect your home but justice may rule against you in these cases and you, the victim, might be accused of assault.
Nations across the world are divided on how to hand out justice to our criminals. Speaking for the UK, I just can’t see how a prison that gives its inmates access to television, games consoles etc can be deemed as a place of reform. Justice is a difficult one as none of us can truly agree on how to administer it without being cruel and criminal ourselves. It just concerns me that so many criminals can be out of prison in less than ten years and so many reoffend. For now, we have a flawed system but it is a system. Perhaps one day it will improve.
Donna
Justice is a funny thing. Sometimes something happens that really makes you ask the question: ‘Where’s the justice in the world?’ Of course, we don’t really mean justice. We mean fairness. Balance. Karma.
I have recently watched a good friend deal with this lack of balance with admirable poise and grace, so much so it has left me staggered. You hear stories every day of people who have faced a lack of fairness, balance or karma and still remain good, decent, caring. They support others, never letting the wind leave their sales.
What we may lack in conventional justice in the world, I still very much believe we can make up for in terms of our own moral decency. I have often said that something doesn’t need to be illegal or banned to be wrong. We shouldn’t need a bible or a legal code to tell us what it means to be decent. The law should be there to punish when things go wrong but not to define our sense of morality. Justice lies in people being inherently good, despite lack of balance, JUST BECAUSE.
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