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Message: <blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 3307447" data-attributes="member: 22424">The Order of the Stick actually were guilty of the crime of which they were accused, alveit only through Elan's incompetence.Edit: Additionally, the beings who pre-judged the trial (Shojo and Roy's Dad) aren't the beings who have the right to judge the trial. If they'd really wanted to be sure, they should have called in those Celestial beings of Law to ask their opinion. Of course they didn't, because they couldn't be sure that said beings would give the convenient result.The outside observer, though, will always be left with the question: what if something had come up during the trial that by rights should have changed the verdict? Would the outcome have been the same? Or would justice have been done?There is no way the outside observer can ever tell. Therefore, there will now always be a doubt as to the effectiveness of the legal process. And that is damaging to the society (or at least the Sapphire Guard).In a Lawful society (or, order, in the case of the Sapphire Guard) it is vitally important not only that justice be done, but also that it be seen to be done. Where corruption like this is exposed, and even where the correct verdict results, the corruption must be thoroughly rooted out, or else the house of cards wobbles. Hence, Shojo needed to be removed (although, there again, Miko went about things in the wrong way - Shojo needed to be arrested, tried, and his actions publicly exposed. Once again, justice needs to be seen to be done to restore faith in the system).</blockquote>

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