Unique Justice

The visual metaphor created by Lady Justice—wearing a blindfold and holding balanced scales to show the law should be applied equally to all—is as bad as outright bias. A better image would be a blindfold over one eye and, in place of the scales, a magnifying glass held in front of the other. Because language is inherently too inaccurate to describe every possible situation and every event, criminal or not, no laws can be written to fairly cover every incident in life, all of them being unique.

To truly implement justice, there must be room to compensate for our required use of the faulty tool of terminology and the lack of our ability to predict a detailed future using it. Otherwise, justice remains absent.

"The more laws, the less justice." -Cicero