Twelve Angry Men Review: Empathy, Critical Thinking, And How Our Justice System Makes Us Willfully Stupid
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It’s pretty common nowadays to acknowledge that the American justice system is broken, flawed, or even inherently corrupt as a result that most of it is based on the monetary advantage a person can have over someone of a lower economic status, regardless of the inherent severity of a crime. This factor has often been used to illustrate how even a poor and penny stricken innocent man can go to jail for a minor offense as opposed to a person or an institution avoiding time in a cell based on the effortless affordability they can have in retaining the services of a highly qualified attorney. Whether this is some athlete whose drunk driving resulted in the death or fatal injury of an innocent bystander, or some large pharmaceutical company’s deliberate mishandling of the distribution of a highly addictive drug, the fact that all they had to do was pay a small fine showcases that our justice system is nothing more than a complex based soley on profit rather than actual justice. These factors are very much prevalent in the criticism that Sidney Lumet’s
Twelve Angry Men Review: Empathy, Critical Thinking, And How Our Justice System Makes Us Willfully Stupid
Twelve Angry Men Review: Empathy, Critical…
Twelve Angry Men Review: Empathy, Critical Thinking, And How Our Justice System Makes Us Willfully Stupid
It’s pretty common nowadays to acknowledge that the American justice system is broken, flawed, or even inherently corrupt as a result that most of it is based on the monetary advantage a person can have over someone of a lower economic status, regardless of the inherent severity of a crime. This factor has often been used to illustrate how even a poor and penny stricken innocent man can go to jail for a minor offense as opposed to a person or an institution avoiding time in a cell based on the effortless affordability they can have in retaining the services of a highly qualified attorney. Whether this is some athlete whose drunk driving resulted in the death or fatal injury of an innocent bystander, or some large pharmaceutical company’s deliberate mishandling of the distribution of a highly addictive drug, the fact that all they had to do was pay a small fine showcases that our justice system is nothing more than a complex based soley on profit rather than actual justice. These factors are very much prevalent in the criticism that Sidney Lumet’s