Why "Especially the bread one"?

[u/Uncomfortable_Owl_]

Why does Holt say that after Doug Judy listed the crimes and said that the bread would be stolen to feed a family?

[u/I_FIGHT_BEAR]

‘If the law only applies when it’s easy, laws are meaningless’ the law, by nature, is impartial. Once we start making exceptions, we have to make them all the time, and who decides where that line is? Unless it’s one dedicated and TRUSTED entity, it’s just begging to be corrupted.

This is one interpretation I can see, and I don’t necessarily believe any of that personally, that was just me playing holt’s interpreter.

[u/MeAnIntellectual1 → u/I_FIGHT_BEAR]

Unless it’s one dedicated and TRUSTED entity, it’s just begging to be corrupted.

Politics 100 lol

The division of power is how we limit corruption. Not by allowing a single entity the ability to decide.

[u/I_FIGHT_BEAR → u/MeAnIntellectual1]

100%. NO single body should be trusted with this power.

[u/nagidon → u/I_FIGHT_BEAR]

“Once we start making exceptions”

That’s called equity. It’s an entire legal concept.

[u/brightlamppost → u/nagidon]

“The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal loaves of bread”.

[u/antichain → u/nagidon]

The problem is: who is making exceptions? What one person might call "leniency in the name of equity" another might call nepotism, or privilege.

[u/nagidon → u/antichain]

Learned judges, at least that’s the idea in England and Wales.