Is This Really Justice?

How far are people wiling to go, to watch someone pay for a crime they have committed? In the episode “White Bear” the character being punished is a woman in her twenties named Victoria. The crime that she has committed is considered to be one of the worst, no matter from what perspective you look at it from. She alongside her husband had kidnapped a little girl, and what they did to her was unthinkable. They tortured her and when she died they put her in a bag and burned her body. The viewers are not told if Victoria had any part to do with the torturing, but what we do know is that she was filming the whole thing. To some people that might seem as bad or even worse than the acts that her husband did, because she could have done something to save that little girl. It is hard to imagine another human being doing such a crime, how could they just stand there and watch such acts being done to a poor little child? That is what makes most people angry, and it should because no child should have to go through that. For Victoria’s punishment the court decides to make her feel frightened and confused just as the little girl must have been. They do not punish the husband because he hangs himself before he can be trialed and punished. The way that they make Victoria feel scared and confused is by whipping out her memories and putting her through some kind of alternate world. Where she is the victim, and she is being chased by killers (“Hunters”) that want to get her and torture her. While this is all happening all of the other people in the town are just recording her not helping at all. Throughout the whole event, Victoria is extremely terrified because she does not know what is happening or why since they whipped off her memory. At the end of the event she is shown what she has done and why they are doing what they are doing to her. She is extremely saddened because she does not remember doing that to the child. So are they really punishing the person that committed the crime since she cannot remember what she did. In my opinion, they should have not whipped off Victoria’s memories because her memories are what make her the criminal. Of course, maybe the parents of the little girl are satisfied, but are they really punishing the real criminal. What they did to Victoria was not humane, but would we really do something to stop it if we all know what she did to that child?