Can homicide be justified? ... I am not referring to an approach under the current state of our most civilized societies. Rather, it is about looking for some kind of natural right, however remote in time, that could justify killing a fellow man.
Currently we resort to the fact that hatred and revenge are not feelings that can lead to morally acceptable behaviors, but at some point, under the primary legislation of some basic human organization, this should have been so, simply compensate with your own life if you have been able to cause harm ... Conflict, all conflict, is now institutionalized. Justice applies the law, the rules for each case. But justice is also subjective. And there will be those who never see that any justice of the men collectively can pay them for a damage caused.
I do not raise a gratuitous debate as a result of this original book from 1996. It is rather a matter of the great author Margaret Atwood, who knew how to turn a real testimony into the emblem of the impossible balance between true justice and morality.
Grace Marks, at her tender 16 years old, has been sentenced to life imprisonment. The year is 1843 and the official Justice is already armed enough to find the punishment in Grace's life imprisonment.
But she had already taken her own justice. The one her heart dictated. Perhaps she is a visceral murderer, unscrupulous, affected by some psychopathy ...
Only years later, Dr. Simon Jordan reaches out to Grace for answers. The girl can get a pardon. That's what some new loobys are up to, to remove the label of perpetual punishment for the girl so they can grant her a second chance.
Everything will depend on what she may want to communicate. How sorry I am. From her presence before the world as a mature woman and far from the demons that could possess her ...
But what Simon Jordan begins to discover turns everything upside down. Perhaps Grace could never tell the truth. Perhaps he told it and they did not want to listen to it ... A disturbing truth will make its way through the mediation of Dr. Simon Jordan. And the foundations of society will shake to the sound of an earthquake for consciences.
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