The case had not yet gone to its first trial.
But it had already attracted considerable attention online, mainly because people could so easily put themselves in the defendant's position.
Just think...
Fighting back to protect a family member and injuring someone in the process.
Wasn't that a fairly common scenario?
Any ordinary person might encounter something like that.
So after the case was reported online, it drew enormous attention.
Videos about it had accumulated hundreds of millions of views across the internet.
After replying to Luo Daxiang, Su Bai took another step.
He specifically went online to check the related Trending Searches.
The case had first attracted attention several months earlier.
Still...
It continued to generate a certain amount of interest.
Quite a few news reports carried headlines like these:
[Should fighting back against someone who insults your mother be subject to legal judgment?]
[Emotion and law: which should take precedence?]
[Family and criminal punishment: how should one choose? What ruling will the court deliver?]
Beneath the headlines were details about the case.
But Su Bai knew the media's habits all too well.
The news reports only gave a general account of what had happened, without explaining the details clearly.
The comments, however, were divided into two camps.
One held that law outweighed emotion, and that the sentence should be based on legal impartiality, with no leniency whatsoever.
The other held that emotion outweighed law, and that since the law existed to maintain fairness and order, legal liability arising from an emotional outburst should be reduced or waived.
The two sides argued back and forth.
Su Bai closed the search page and frowned slightly.
What do they mean, emotion outweighs law or law outweighs emotion?
Can we analyze this from a legal perspective?
Rubbing between his brows, Su Bai