Neuropathologist, about Melissa's case: All standards are relevant until the real one shows up.

Wise words from others who also know

How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems.  Robert Southey.  

Richard Cardinal Cushing: When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.

Nelson Mandela: “The justice system is not about upholding truth, law or justice, but of molding an ideal required of society”. 

Montesquieu: The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.

 Jonathan Swift: Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices: so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.  

Grover Cleveland: There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice.

Benjamin Disraeli: What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few

Ambrose Bierce: Politics is the conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

Ambrose Bierce: Justice is a commodity which in a more or less adulterated condition the State sells to the citizen as a reward for his allegiance, taxes and personal service.

 Seigneur de Saint-Evremond: The censure of those who are opposed to us, is the highest commendation that can be given us.

William Rounseville Alger: Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason. 

Neuropathologist, about Melissa's case: All standards are relevant until the real one shows up.

Daniel J Boorstin: Your greatest obstacle to personal growth isn’t ignorance; it’s the illusion of knowledge.