Many people pondered the term "bandit law" over and over as Fang Yun continued speaking.
"So, judging whether a law is a justice law or a bandit law is simple. If a law tends to protect victims and citizens who might become victims, it is necessarily a justice law. If a law tends to protect the perpetrator, it is certainly a bandit law."
"I will use an example to explain why some laws are bandit laws rather than justice laws."
"Suppose someone commits fraud. For example, he says he is about to undertake a major business venture and asks his relatives and friends to lend him money, promising to repay them twice as much afterward. In reality, however, he pockets the money and spends it extravagantly, then lies to his relatives and friends, claiming that the business lost money."
"We all know that, in the past, the various kingdoms placed no upper limit on punishments for fraudsters; the death penalty was among them. But now, some kingdoms believe that no fraud should carry the death penalty, because it does not involve directly killing anyone. Yet the consequences of the fraudster's actions do not end there. Those he cheated have no money left, and some even borrowed from others to lend to him. These people find it difficult to go on living as they did before. As a result, some commit suicide. Entire families even take arsenic together, leaving dozens dead."
"Under the current laws of some kingdoms, this fraudster would receive, at most, twenty years of exile. In reality, however, the harm such criminals inflict on society far exceeds that of ordinary criminals sentenced to death. They have indirectly killed far too many people. Any race with a sense of justice would consider such people deserving of death. But if