Importance Of Justice In 12 Angry Men

The quality of life itself is based upon twelve individuals. Accordingly, quality is far more essential to life than quantity. As each individual has different perspectives of fairness, emotion and empathy contribute to the sense of fairness. On the other hand, logic is a diverse judgement of the rights and wrongs, the do’s and don'ts established by ethics and ethos. Second chances are possible, but not entitled. Ultimately, in court, the death penalty should serve as a sentence on certain situations. Reginald Rose’s, 12 Angry Men demonstrates the importance of the well known statement, innocent until proven guilty. An eighteen year old boy being accused guilty by eleven jurors who assume fairness and logic are intertwined.

Having a persuasive argument for the right reason is essential in the name of law. Defending someone with believed proper logic for the sake of fairness is shown throughout the film. As …show more content…
As humans go through life expressing the good and bad to anyone who puts themselves in their sights. One of the opposing eleven jurors stated, “The boy killed his father because kids are disrespectful and ungrateful” (Rose, 1957, Twelve Angry Men) this shows a judgemental, hasty generalization towards all youth. This statement represents no logic and fairness to kids; not all kids are disrespectful and ungrateful, but this one opinion was attempting to persuade the other eleven men to think that. For fairness to be present it requires logic to shape it over any given amount of time. Even though irrevocable mistakes can be made, nothing said or heard in a courtroom can fully be accounted for. Essentially outside influences can over power logic and fairness where prosecutors withhold information to plea a desired way like how Juror 3 showed resemblance to at the beginning of the debate between the twelve men. Mistakes can be made, but not erased, Juror 8 potentially saved a life by arguing the known