Strict justice would demand total confiscation of your property, personal imprisonment and fines.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If, at the limit, you can rule without crime, you cannot do so without injustices.
I will obey every law, or submit to the penalty.
The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.
Fines are preferable to imprisonment and other types of punishment because they are more efficient. With a fine, the punishment to offenders is also revenue to the State.
If we believe in our current penal process, then the penalties imposed by judges and juries should be the only sanctions for one's crime, not the invisible sanctions of the legislature.
The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside those limits.
Even without mandatory sentences, judges are still capable of levying tough penalties for serious offenses - and just as in states like Texas that have 'tough on crime' reputations, this can be done without jeopardizing public safety.
All repressive laws must be revoked, and laws introduced to protect the rights of the people.
I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.
Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.