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Personally, I'm in agreement with you in that idolization and martyr-ization of bad people is a real and serious problem. I can also imagine a dystopian future where such policies are taken too far, where all publicly accessible information looks like: Human #6789 perpetrated the event known as "the bowling green massacre". After conviction by confidential courts the individual has been sentenced to death. Do not question why your neighbor hasn't been seen in 5 weeks, please move along.


The idea of a justice system is that we can have a system more just than ad hoc reactions of the public.

Of course there's a balance to strike and if public has no influence on justice system it may end up as bad as no justice system or worse.




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