I know where you are are coming from but do note that in most common law countries Crime against property and White collar crimes CAN in some instances get you a much larger sentence than rape and murder - make sense of that if you can!Originally Posted by joroco
Does the fact that we can release an obviously guilty party in the criminal courts and then find them guilty on excatly the same evidence in the civil court, attest to us being a decent society? Similarly, does the fact that another country has differing laws to our own and even differing interpretations of laws we have in common, make their society less decent than our own? I would suggest not and don't suppose you do either. And btw, the American constitution bears many things that many Americans are not proud of. Quite frankly, any argument that posits it as a stellar example will be fraught with fundamental flaws in my opinion. Consider the constitutional right to bear arms, if you will. Just my thoughtsNow I see that yesterday a newspaper proprietor and editor-in-chief (Daily Tribune) has been jailed for between 6 months and two years for an item in her paper that was deemed to be libel. In addition to that she was fined P5 million. As the proprietor, she almost certainly did not actually pen the story. Presumably, a case for damages will now follow by the victim.
Regardless of the merits of the case, I find it unbelievable to learn that a country which claims to be free and democratic, and has a constitution modelled on the US system, criminalises matters which in any decent society should be a matter for civil courts.
