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Justice - Persausive speech. Justice – Persuasive Speech Throughout history,
the ideology of revenge being a means of justice has ...
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Justice – Persuasive Speech
Throughout history, the ideology of revenge being a means of justice has seeped into the minds of the human race. For thousands of years people have been brought various amounts of torment from others who believe what they were doing is justice. In the Shakespearean play "Hamlet" we see this ideology being exercised by Laertes, who is enraged by the fact that Hamlet had slain his father. Laertes seeks revenge and challenges Hamlet to a dual in which he plans to kill him. This method of revenge in modern terms has been classed as an eye for an eye, or in this case a life for a life. Justice is much like the saying "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder" in saying this, justice is in the eyes of the person exercising it. In America even today some states still have capital punishment with the belief that it's only fair for a person to pay with their life in certain situations.
The judge who resides in a court room with absolutely no idea of a persons past history, except for the criminal charges against their name is considered worthy with the jury's final decision to play with a defendant's life. The immense power given to the judge's and jury is a crime in it's self. Children and adults alike are told not to judge people and that two wrongs don't make a right, so we are contradicting our own words of wisdom and are hypocrites by doing this. It is impossible to determine whether or not the person is innocent or guilty or even framed for that matter, if the justice system is lacking the necessary evidence or if it has been tampered with, yet the proceedings in some cases still go ahead as if they were the criminal.
Authority is a major factor in the implementing of justice. Some police are on a power trip being given the authority to govern the people of there country and they talk down to everyone as if they are of higher status than civilians or as if the innocent were a criminal. In the...
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