I actually was doing the math on this kind of thing lately, but it was RE: Alex Jones/Sandy Hook.
So, the average US lifespan is about 77.
So a court case taking 10 years is about 1/10th of your entire life.
Now, consider that the beginning of your life (say up to 13 or so) you're not really in any mental position to be able to bring a court case. At the end of your life (similarly probably the last 15 years or so), you're in a similar position, where your body and mind may be failing and you may not be in a position to bring a court case.
So if we cut off the "unusable in court" years of our lives, we're left with about 50 years of good quality "living" as an adult.
That means a court case taking 10 years is actually closer to 1/5th of your entire life.
How is a life where a large portion of it was fighting in court just to get a bare minimum of what is passing for justice a quality life?
Do people not understand the passage of time and these are literally lives being wasted fighting for justice from fucking idiots?
I understand the whole "court moves slow" but god damn there's got to be a better fucking system than making people wait out giant chunks of their lives for a pathetic half-ass result that isn't anywhere close to "justice."
It's a fucking travesty that anyone defends it. It's a broken ass system, stop acting like we can fix something that places such little value of the time spent on such things in a persons life.
Seriously if I had spent that many years trying to claw back justice from a fuckwit like this or Alex Jones, I would not look back and think I had had a chance to have a "life well lived." No, the "justice" system took that from me by taking its sweet fucking time.