Will justice only be served if George Zimmerman is convicted?

[Yo_Mama]

32. Justice can only be served if he gets a fair trial

Since we don't know all the evidence, esp. the most important stuff, no one of us can truly "know" now that he is guilty of murder two. Granted, we have highly reasonable suspicions. Until the trial we don't know if they are well-founded. Under our system, crimes have to be proven beyond a reasonable doubt in a court. Sometimes that lets the guilty go free or be convicted of lesser charges, but it's still better than shifting the system so that more accused people are convicted of crimes they didn't really commit. Enough are already.

Ultimately the "justice" in a justice system isn't true justice. There's no victim compensation fund that can give the Martin boy his life back, or let his parents get even one more chance to hug him. It's all gone. The only thing we can give the parents now is the knowledge that we all did care about what happened to their son. But that's not justice.

A justice system can only be a search to find the truth and to penalize the truly guilty, but it doesn't provide true justice, and most of us here believe that the goal is not to inflict damage on the guilty comparable to what they inflicted on their victims. Really. we believe in attempting to correct the correctable, and in attempting to defend against further wrongs.

I think the closest we can come to abstract justice is to protect the rights of the accused, and conduct ourselves so that we reiterate to ourselves and all society that the wrongful death of or wrongful injury to any one of us is an offense to all of us. That would be progress, compared to a century ago.

But we shouldn't fool ourselves about justice. There's no way we can make this whole. There's no justice that can be rendered in a true sense.

I don't know why such bad stuff often happens to such good people. What I've seen of the parents is heartrending.