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DNA testing has proven that hundreds of convicted rapists were/are innocent. If the accused rapist had been acquitted, but the public (maybe a relative of the victim) was sure that he was off on a technicality, and someone (the relative of the victim) killed the accused rapist, would that be acceptable?
That is why we must have absolutes and morals as the basis and foundation of the law.
Situational ethics would absolve the relative of guilt and would encourage his actions against the accused.
Many of the falsely imprisoned rapists were railroaded by dirty cops that knew that there was no case, but they fabricated evidence and coerced confessions just to close the case and give the victims and their families peace and closure; at the expense of accused. How did they justify it? Well he was going to commit a crime anyway. He was scum that we needed to get off the street. etc
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