Thursday, May 10, 2007

No shirt, no shoes, no conviction, no service

So the owner of a restaurant refused to serve O.J. Simpson because of his convictions that Simpson is guilty of murdering his ex-wife and friend. I see a few problems with this scenario. In a society where people are innocent until proven guilty, we tend to forget this. Whether we believe Simpson is guilty is not the point. A jury of his peers said he was not. End of story. Can we then refuse to serve someone because we believe the jury made the wrong decision? We put a lot of faith in our jury system and we believe this is the best way to determine inncence or guilt. There are plenty of problems with the judicial system, but it is the best system we have and hopefully those who are wrongly convicted will get some form of justice. Until we can know for sure that soemone is inncent or guilty, we have to keep our faith in the system. Otherwise, we are inviting chaos into our society and there already is enough of that.

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