Let us assume that the author has come to recognize that one cause of all this injustice is: the injustice of our concept of justice itself! If we may compare justice in a coin, throughout civilization men have only culvitated one side of this coin while the the other side remains rudimentarily developed beyong our day to day interest. The familiar face of justice is: punishing those who commit evil deeds in one instant or another. “An eye for an eye, a tooth”, goes the popular saying. And so does this culture of punishment continue through the ages. Initially intended as a mean of vengeance, then to protect the community, it gradually develops into a means of reforming wrongdoers.
It is for these aims that we have the theory of criminal law taught in universities while, simultaneously, developing better and still better “technology” of execution culminating in the guillotine in one time, and followed by other more “humane” but deadlier termination methods like the death serum for injection! In the process we have established law supporting “Institutions”: the court, prison, and lawa counselling bureaus. And we all learn to respect law enforcement professions: police, judge, jury, lawyer, prosecutor, etc.
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