> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Howard Brazee
>
> On 28 Mar 2008 08:17:13 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rick Fochtman)
> wrote:
>
> >>Sounds like commentary I've heard about the U.S. legal system:
"Truth
> >>and justice are irrelevant, so long as procedure is followed
precisely."
> >--------------------<unsnip>-------------------
> >And the lawyers get their (obscene) fees! :-)
>
> I think "due process" is the goal of judicial systems most everywhere.
> And people want predictability more than Truth and Justice.
> Predictability allows plans to function. Justice might bite us.
Perhaps, to a point. But if you have a program that "predictably"
abends with, say, S913-xx, wouldn't you prefer "justice" in the form of
diagnosing and fixing the cause, rather than "get so-and-so to run it"?
"Due process" should be a means, not an end.
-jc-
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