The nightmare thought is that frightening people is the best way to get work out of them, and that somehow the crueler the environment, the more people will rise to the challenge. You want to think, who would you like as your ideal dad? And your ideal dad is somebody who is tough but gentle. And it's a very hard line to make. We need fathers, as it were, the exemplary father figures in society, avoiding the two extremes, which is the authoritarian disciplinarian on the one hand, and on the other, the lax, no-rules option.
解读:这强调了法律不能仅仅依靠冰冷的理论逻辑,司法实践中的真实案例、过往处理经验,以及社会民众的生活感知同样关键。纯理论构建可能脱离实际,只有融入现实的司法经验,法律才能鲜活地应对复杂多变的社会状况,做出贴合大众正义观的裁决。