India, Dec. 7 -- Mahatma Gandhi believed there is a higher court "than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience." That kind of justice flows from the moral choice we make as humans with the full knowledge that we would be responsible for the consequences, some of which will impact society beyond our timeline. Crime and its punishment have been one such choice that we have had to make through civilisations, from "an eye for an eye" medievalism to a civil justice system. The first is instantaneous, the second protracted, the first douses our raging emotions, the second gives the satisfaction that we aren't just as bad as the killers and deviants and have done absolutely the right thing by respecting behavioural over bestial cod...