I do get it. Just because I don’t agree with you doesn’t mean that I don’t understand. If it were true that 7 nines of people have no problem with traffic tickets, then it would be the case that there would only be around 30 people who ever have a problem. As it is a bit higher than that, it is something that we should address, rather than just complain about.
In the situation that you have indicated (not sure if it a hypothetical or a real story, you have not cited it in any way to actually get any details) this person was negligent in her duties to the court, sure. According to you, she had a mental health problem. What she was effectively telling the court was that she needed help, what she got in return was punishment.
And that is what you are not getting. In your cherry picked example, yes, this person was irresponsible. She had a mental health problem that prevented her from discharging her duties. That’s not really the court’s fault, but it’s not something that I would be complaining about. Treating drug addiction as the disease it is, rather than as something to punish people over, would be a good step in that direction.
That was the last step in a callous legal system that ended up putting her at the mercy of these jailers, sure. They are ultimately responsible, but the system that put her in their hands shares enough of the blame that we ought to maybe look at it and find a way to get better results, rather than bitch and whine that there are people who at most maybe hyperbolized this event. You’ve had far more negative to say about the people bringing this sort of thing to public awareness than you have about the people who were responsible for her death.
Right I know that you chose this example as a case where there aren’t “mitigating factors”, but what is your point in doing so? People with those “mitigating factors” get caught up and have their lives ruined over parking tickets all the time too. That you can imagine a marginal case that you can complain about doesn’t mean that there are not people who really are having these “mitigating factors.”
There are plenty of case studies to be had, with hundreds of millions of fellow citizens, and as such, you can cherry pick a story that, if you generalize outside that cherry picked case, you can use to “prove” anything you want. Cherry picking tells me much more about the person who picked it then whatever it is they are trying to prove.