I mean, I just don’t really understand how lawyers can defend rapists, child predators, murderers, etc. I think I would have to have a moral line somewhere.
I mean, I just don’t really understand how lawyers can defend rapists, child predators, murderers, etc. I think I would have to have a moral line somewhere.
When a nurse looks at my dick, it isn’t because she wants to look at dicks. It’s her job. Let’s not moralize professions. It’s not about being a good or a bad person.
With that out of the way, I can only imagine psychopaths wanting a society in which defendants don’t have defense attorneys. I’m not saying that you are a psychopath, of course. The reason is that - at least when it comes to criminal law - the “people”, but really the state, have relatively unlimited legal resources at their disposal in trying to prove that you are guilty. If the state is allowed to have legally trained professionals on their side, it is only fair that you too can make your case, present your side of the story, with the help of a legal professional. Even if the court was to find you guilty - regardless of whether you actually committed the crime or not (since beyond that point you are legally and culturally a convict) - you still would want somebody who understands the law, the culture of the court, the bias of the judge, in order to let them fight for your right to a proportionate punishment.