[talmand]

While in some cases I'm sure that is the thought, but it seems we've possibly reached the point where that way of thinking has made the whole thing a farce.

When people see that a small act like this causes such a number of charges that threatens a large portion of person's life in prison then it becomes an untrustworthy process. It gains the appearance of not being about justice but of something else. It is not good for a justice system to seem that it is more concerned over how a particular crime is committed versus what the crime is in of itself, because it creates a feeling of injustice. For example, why should a murderer be punished more severely because he chose one weapon over another?