It is difficult to prove that a person is a good person;
Want to prove that a person is bad, but very simple;
Because there is never a perfect person in this world, that's why our laws need the "presumption of innocence" principle. We convict a person too easily.
It is increasingly easy for us to label someone a "bad guy" while carefully defining a "good guy."
Many times, we question why the law should protect the human rights of a recognized "bad guy", we confuse the legal circle about the "death penalty" controversy, and we despise the deep legal and social values behind the "presumption of innocence". Because none of us can guarantee that the next "trial" will be ourselves.
On the Jewish Holocaust Monument in Boston in the United States, there is a confession of the German Protestant pastor Martin Nimora: "First they came to arrest the communists, I didn't speak, because I was not a communist. They came to arrest the Jews, and I didn't speak, Because I'm not Jewish. They came to arrest the union members...they finally came to arrest me, and no one came forward to speak for me anymore." I'll always remember what the teacher always told us in law class—" Justice delayed is injustice". Even if Richard Jewell proves his innocence at the end of the film, the world has since lost a hero...
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