Relating to relativism, murder cannot be seen as wrong or right in any circumstances. The worth of human life is opinionated. A relativist basically would have no opinion …show more content…
Some believe than even criminals deserve due process while others do not care because anything that happens to them is justice. Sometimes the justice system fails to work. Criminals can get off even though they're guilty and are put back into society. To get a better picture of this, we can look into the prison murder of John Geoghan. He was a Catholic priest, convicted of child molestation, and sentenced to nine years in prison. Before he could serve his time, he was killed by another inmate. The sentence he was given still would have allowed for him to return into the free world to molest another child after the nine years were over. His murder may have saved more lives from being ruined. Sexually abused children are more likely to obtain certain mental disorder than children who were not. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), about 80% of adults who were abused as children can be diagnosed for at least one psychiatric disorder at the age of 21. In regards to his murder, it may have stopped for even more bad in this world, and stopped him from leaving a more widespread criminal