THE most-famous convict in the entire-world, Yehoshua "Jesus" benJoseph, agreed with you,

while calling legalists "Hypocrites!"..

I don't hold the Christian bible to be my scripture ( it's contaminated, it blocked-out Gospel of Mary, while including idiocies, etc ), there's some good points in it, sometimes..

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=James%202&version=AMP

has some interesting perspective on judging..

WHEN you've got narcissism/machiavellianism/sociopathy-psychopathy/nihilism/sadism/systemic-dishonesty judging,

THEN it isn't going to tolerate accountability, responsibility, etc.

It's going to murder-from-its-world accountability & responsibility, as the psychopaths who rule some countries already do.

The ICC's supposed to get precisely those people, but apparently France has decided that those who didn't agree to ICC's jurisdiction are exempt from being arrested.

Russia exemplifies outright DarkHexad ( the 6 factors of human-evil I've found, identified above, you've probably heard of DarkTriad, the 3 admitted by the professional psychologists ), & its judgement is intentionally DarkHexad.

Some reject truth because "truth" gives their identity, or faction, or political-power, or wealth, gain.

ALWAYS this kind of thing is fighting-for-ownership-of-the-world..

Even the incompetently-drafted-laws which we enact while "pretending" they won't be used to abuse the ones who never committed crime, are systematic dishonest-judgement, but in enacting, not in judging-according-to-the-enacted-law.

As for "truth is a fact you cannot decide: it just is", well, in some physics-cases, that may well be true, but in all statistically determined physics that no-longer is true, is it?

3-sigmas is "discovered" in some branches of science, but 5-sigmas is "discovered" in particle-physics, right?

There's decision going on, there..

Fundamentally, IF someone won't accept responsibility for their own nondecision or their decision, THEN Universe is just going to keep recycling their Continuum/Soul, FOREVER, until it earns integrity.

Universe recycles ALL energies contained within it, whether physical, like waves ( as "particles" actually are, in QM ), or immaterial, like meaning/knowing, or probability-waves/will/intent.

Law, like engineering, is essentially: you create work which DOESN'T PERMIT malfunction.

All you have to do is to decide how much you're going to pay to achieve a certain degree-of-certainty in prohibiting malfunction.

Want a perfect-law?

it's going to require serious work.

Shoddy law? that can be done quickly, without too much effort, right?

However, the more laws there are, the more their interactions become complex..

& then RightLaw becomes more & more & more costly!

Worse, ideologues enact laws whenever they can, so as to break considered-reasoning from the legislation & legal-practice processes..

So, yes the dishonest, & the ideological/prejudiced/"religious"/programmed will intentionally "interpret" laws so as to do harm to whomever they're contempting..

& shoddy law cannot be "rightly" interpreted because it wasn't ever right, in the 1st place..

But that doesn't in ANY way negate the responsibility of the ones judging, when they're judging.

Russia's government is openly evil: they even sent incinerators along with their troops, for sake of eradicating evidence/accountability, into Ukraina.

Don't be a "bot" for them, by pushing that that's as valid as proper uprightness, though.

They can "decide" that objectivity is criminality, & that disinformation authorized by their regime is what "True" means,

but gaslighters are gaslighters.

Never help them against integrity.

Never help local corruption against integrity.

Cut them every time, & teach them that their commitment-to-enforcing-disinformation is going to COST them, among the upright.

Integrity requires it of us.

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