Pacifien wrote...
Kudara wrote...
See this is why I'm not quite sure where everyone is getting this the Code itself is outdated. The asari on Illium certainly don't seem to think so. Now Samara herself implies that perhaps it is but err... of all the asari you run into she seems to be the only one to say that. We have no evidence to back up Samara's assertion at all.
The asari on Illium seem conflicted, though. While they wouldn't question the use of the Justicar Code on fellow asari, they seemed very worried on the reaction they'd get if the Code were used on another species. It's as if they do know it's antiquated, but it's a sacred belief that defines their culture.
Consider that the asari have a pretty much done away with regional cultural/value differences a while back. They have a single government based on real-time galactic-wide extranet, a participative democracy where all asari will vote on any issue. It has no elected representatives: every asari representing itself. Matriarchs DO have strong influence, each one attracting younger, similar-minded asari.
If any asari ever had cause to ask for the elimination of the Justicar Order, they would have put it to a vote and acted on it. The Order still stands, we must therefore assume that the Code is representative of what modern asari society considers to be "right". We must assume that asari law, while being allowed some degree of regional/planetary variations (like Illium), shares the same basic tenets as the Code. Justicars embody that Code, so their judgement is accepted as a matter of course, just as a Judge's would.
Samara was willing to remain in custody for 24 hours, a reasonable duration for preventive custody, beyond which she would have had to be charged with a crime. As she had commited none, any police officer
attempting to keep her emprisonned would have been an
accessory to illegal detention/sequestration and therefore fair game.
Other species tend to be quite enamored with their shades of legal grayness. They consider the Justicars' brand of absolute black/white justice unpalatable. In other species, such "vigilanteism" would of course be unacceptable. In any government other than participative democracy, laws mainly serve the State (and those who benefit from the State). Representative democracies (i.e. all present day democracies) suffer from varying levels of corruption, where elected representatives are under pressure from:
1) other members of their party to vote for the party line rather than their conscience,
2) lobbies and special interest groups whose generous funding made their election possible
3) the constant temptation to legislate in favor of their own personal interest
4) the urge to get themselves re-elected by enacting poor but popular legislation
In such systems, the State cannot afford to have individuals like Justicars scrutinizing it for corruption... So Justicars will never be accepted in such systems.
Now before anyone thinks I'm against representative democracy, let me make it clear I believe it is the best form of government available to us, Humans. We (21st century humans) still suffer from illiteracy, famine, internecine warfare, discrimination and abuse based on sex, race, caste, religion... We still have a few centuries to go before we can hope for an asari-style participative democracy.
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Ok I am going a little over board here.
