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[drmoonstone]

Should I feel bad that doing my job sometimes means that murderers and other types of law-breakers have gone free or have received a lesser sentence than they likely would have otherwise

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[beforearcadia]

Tricky

[drmoonstone]

Isn't it? I mean, they're still criminals, right?

[beforearcadia]

By the standards you're referring to-
Maybe not by the standards of their lives

[drmoonstone]

But the standards of their lives are not the same as the ones that society holds them to.

[beforearcadia]

Do you believe in those standards of society?

[drmoonstone]

Society expects me to...

[beforearcadia]

That's not what I asked

[drmoonstone]

I believe in some of them sometimes.

[beforearcadia]

Then you only have the right to judge a man for good or ill sometimes
You do yourself and those men injustice otherwise.

[drmoonstone]

Thankfully, it's not my job to judge them for what they do.

[beforearcadia]

Diagnosis is judgement

[drmoonstone]

I never question my diagnoses though.

[beforearcadia]

Only what it will do to others down the line then?

[drmoonstone]

But that's out of my hands, isn't it?

[beforearcadia]

Only if you let it be-
But that sort of thing doesn't matter as much as doing something you fully believe in

[drmoonstone]

I do my part, and I daresay that I do it well. After that, what happens depends on the lawyers and the courts.