Indiscriminate punishment

Make one serious mistake, in the eyes of the law, and it’s all over. It is of no consequence how you have lived your life, whether you have lived it in the service of others, of God, if you engaged in volunteer work every week, or if you were always there for a friend in need. It doesn’t matter if you helped old ladies cross the street, if you prayed from dusk till dawn (especially not this), or if you worked with crippled children out of the good of your heart. It is of no consequence if you loved, or if you made numerous sacrifices to raise children. It doesn’t matter if you’ve never been wronged or if you’ve been betrayed at every turn. None of it matters if in a flash of rage you take a life. You will be a common criminal that must pay with all the rest of them. Society does not reward doing good. It only indiscriminately punishes crimes that can be measured in physical trauma or currency.