Originally Posted by
Grist_To_The_Mill
Often in today's world the word "justice" has lost it's meaning. Now it's more about revenge, payback and sometimes financial compensation.
On line petitions are just a sop for the Twitter generation, often folks sign up just because their mates have and they don't want to stand out and be different.
We must also remember that any prosecutions shouldn't be against Mr Punch, we need it to be against the hand that controls him. As Kerr rightly points out you can't take legal action against somebody for being human and making a mistake. You need to target the ones that forced that mistake when they knew the bigger picture.