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[ghostshippingly]

Excuse me community! If you don't mind and you've got a little time, I have something to ask you that I'm curious about. A conversation with one of the Doctors got me thinking, you see, because even though it's something I've worked with a lot on my world, I've never really thought about how it might work on others...

Sorry, I'm rambling a little, ha ha. Um, anyway! My question is, could you all tell me about how the justice system works where you come from? I guess you could call this research.

I'll go first! Anyone who's interested might have to ask Mr. Edgeworth for a more accurate description, though... I've worked on a few cases, but I don't know that much. On my world when a crime is committed, the police usually arrest a suspect, and then the prosecution and the defense have three days in court to get a guilty or not guilty verdict. People usually think that the suspect did it though, even when they haven't collected all the evidence, so really it's usually a fight to prove what really happened... anyway, I think the system is unfair, but I've never thought about asking other people how it works for them! So that's why I'm asking now, really.

Thank you very much!

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[hawkblocker]

There's an actual "justice system"?

[Eyebrow raise. The hawk-winged man isn't exceptionally surprised, however. More amused than anything else.]

We have nothing like that. In the human countries here, law is dictated and enforced by royalty and steel respectively. Among we of the hawk tribe, it's a bit more relaxed. We don't have a "law", per se, so much as an agreement. If you kill someone, prepare to be killed. Otherwise, work it out with fighting or talking. Whatever works for you.

[ghostshippingly]

In my world, yes there is! I think that things used to work the way they did in your human countries for us a very long time ago, but I don't think that was always very fair either.

If you don't mind me asking, sir, what's the hawk tribe?

[hawkblocker]

Our world is divided into humans and laguz, primarily. The two dominant species, created by the Goddess. The hawk tribe of Phoenicis are hawk-type laguz. My people. Essentially, we're half-bird and can shift into full form.

So your world has progressed far past that part? Perhaps there's hope for the humans after all.

[ghostshippingly]

Oh, I see! Wow, that sounds so amazing... at least, it does to me! We don't have any people like that on my world... um, so laguz are people who can turn into animals? Or is it just birds?

Yes, at least in a lot of countries. Things are still a bit unfair where I live, but maybe that might change in the future too.

[hawkblocker]

No, we of the bird tribe are only one variant; the beast tribes of Gallia and the dragons of Galdoa both have their own types.

Your world has a lot of countries?

[potatochips]

Mine works the same as yours more or less, so I wouldn't bore you with specifics.

It's a flawed system.

[ghostshippingly]

Yes, I agree completely! It could be so easy for the wrong person to be convicted while the guilty person walks free.

[potatochips]

It could.

In a system where a guilty person could win against a victim and technically be rewarded for a crime one really has to wonder how much the 'justice' part applies.

[ghostshippingly]

I suppose it depends how the people who work inside the system make it apply, huh... I know some good people who do everything they can to make sure justice is served properly, but I don't think there are that many attorneys like them. It's really a problem.

[potatochips]

It is quite a problem. I don't know any attorneys myself but I know plenty of great officers putting their life on the line that have had more than one criminal they caught go free on them once they hit court.

A problem without people of enough influence willing to try and fix it.

[specialest_agent]

That sounds just about as it is over here. Only one thing, though - three days?

[ghostshippingly]

Yes, but I'm not sure why though. I looked it up on wikipedia once, and I think it might be because a few years ago there was such an increase in the crime rate that they wanted to streamline everything somehow... I don't think it's fair at all to have to do something so important in such a short time, but that's how it works.

[specialest_agent]

Not fair? It just doesn't work at all. You don't conduct an investigation in three days unless you're very good, or very dumb.

[ghostshippingly]

I guess Mr. Nick must be very good then...?

[specialest_agent]

Who's Mr. Nick?

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[material_guy]

There's more than one justice system in any kinda world. There's personal justice, too.

The fewer stops 'n offices 'n professionals it's got involved, the more fair it usually is.

[ghostshippingly]

Well... yes, of course there is, but that's why I want to hear about all of them.

Why do you think that?

[material_guy]

It's cuttin' out the middle men, so everyone's payin' closer to a fair price, without any kinda cut goin' out to some third 'n fourth party. It's kinda like buyin' from farmers's usually cheaper than buyin' from the store.

[ghostshippingly]

But everyone will have their own ideas of what justice is, right? So some people might deal out different punishments for the same crime, and that doesn't seem fair at all.

[material_guy]

It's worse to do bad things to some people than others.

[morethanseeing]

We used to have one on my world where the government let one major company control the laws...it wasn't a very good justice system.

[ghostshippingly]

That doesn't sound like a very good system at all. Wouldn't a company just pass laws that were only good for the company?

[morethanseeing]

Yes, and that's exactly what they did for a long while.

[ghostshippingly]

I'm sorry. That sounds like an awful thing to live with.

[morethanseeing]

It was. I got out, but I still feel awful for the people still there.