It can come down to finding a way of moving on though. The law doesn't dispense justice, it dispenses the law, so how do we let go if we can't accept that some form of justice may be meted out in time. The alternative is to enforce justice ourselves and although that nay be tempting it may do your family more harm to see you in jail than the original injustive against them.

@Cyklone I agree, sort of. However, I don't see the law as a justice dispenser, rather as a means to address an injustice, a sublte distinction, I realize. True and perfect justice would require going back in time to prevent whatever injustice has occurred, but of course there's nothing that can be done to reverse an injustice. The issue of reparations aside, the Emancipation Proclamation wasn't sufficient to address the injustice of slavery, it took the 13th Amendment. This was not justice, but a law designed to end what had become a very long period of injustice.

In our democracy we, the people, are the law. The prosecutor literally represents 'the people' in a criminal court. Instant karma is for YouTube videos, but if an injustice is to be addressed, it should be done swiftly, not to serve as a deterrent (this is a myth), nor for the sake of those injured (sometimes viewed as vengeance), nor as punishment (a moral statement about a particular act), but to protect additional victims and, perhaps most importantly, to demonstrate publicly to all that we as a society have, through the legal process, done our best to engineer karma.

Of course this may all be undone by a governor or president who chooses to pardon the convicted criminal.

@p-nullifidian couldn't agree more.

@Cyklone Thank you for making this thought-provoking post.

Nothing's perfect. Sometimes the bad guys win.

@Cyklone too often they win, but I suppose this is not unexpected in an universe where there is no god, no saviors, and no karmic retribution, but just the realities of life, which only we can address by fairer societies.

@David1955 too true.

You yanks really need to learn how to spell . Maybe because I'm an old bastard but so often it seems that the longer you live the more chickens come to roost. Sometimes I wonder if the worst curse is " live a long life".