[vagrantJin]

> What went wrong? This is sad because Ms. Holmes is brilliant.

This statement right here.

The fact that a supposedly impartial judge is having a crisis of reasoning...

The joke being "all equal before the law", the punchline being that aristocrat/peasant social structure is doing better than ever inside a self-proclaimed "republic"

[leobg]

Isn’t the argument, “This is especially bad because she had the foundation to use her intelligence in ways not useful to society. She took to crime not because she was raised in the wrong milieu or saw no other chance to survive with what she had. She took to crime by choice. Not only did she caused damage by what she did. She also caused society damage by withholding her talents, for which society, too, had paid, from real tasks facing us.”

[vagrantJin]

I am merely pointing out something we can all see, but pretend not to.

Can you imagine the judge in a serial killers murder case going on about how talented the killer was in cutting up body parts and could have contributed to society by being a specialist amputator. Poor thing just made a bad choice. Now we put away such a talented amputator in prison and the world is darker for it.

Oh woe!

[Laforet]

The laws of the republic are only as impartial as the people enforcing them. Unfortunately charisma works in mysterious ways.