My ideas are a piece of cake compared to life. We are so used to hearing about policemen warning criminals about their right to remain silent that some of the younger generation may not realize that this is something that never existed during three-quarters of the history of the United States. Back in the 1960s, both the Attorney General of the United States and the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court thought it was unfair that inexperienced and amateurish criminals would make damaging admissions that more savvy crooks and members of crime syndicates would never make. There was no thought of the cost of creating this fairness between different categories of criminals. How many victims or their widows or orphans would have laughed is another story.
Someone always has to pay the price of fairness, whether in money or in other ways.
This straining for an abstract and impossible kind of fairness and justice is one of the most tragic quests of our time.