From: Anton Sherwood (dasher@netcom.com)
Date: Fri Jan 02 1998 - 20:20:15 MST
: Abraham Moses Genen Wrote:
: >The current civil legal system (and/or justice system) is
: >theoretically based primarily on the perception or goal of
: >individual equity in jurisprudence
John K Clark writes
: You're right, our current "justice" system is based on equality, that's
: why it produces very little justice. A virtue is something that should be
: maximized and that's why equality is not a virtue, unlike knowledge or
: intelligence or happiness or justice you can have too much equality.
er, equity != equality.
Regardless of public good arguments, I expect any justice system
worthy of the name to follow a principle of *procedural* equality,
i.e. no disputant gets an advantage over others on account of some
personal status.
Anton Sherwood *\\* +1 415 267 0685 *\\* DASher@netcom.com
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