“Tell me and I will forget. Show me and I will remember. Let me teach someone and it will be mine. Go aside and then maybe I’ll finally be able to do better than you taught me.”
The phrase seems to be familiar, but in this form you will not find it either in Franklin or in the ancient Chinese to whom it is attributed. It was abandoned to me a few years ago by a brilliant lawyer of the older generation. He was forever busy, forgot the exact quote, and he had to reinvent it himself. What’s called, Franklin turned aside. I think our lawyer did better.
This aphorism inspired him by a youthful memory. Despite the academic degree of a doctor of legal sciences and a lot of overly calculated regalias, he hardly remembered the lectures of the jurfak of forty years ago and the Talmud of the then textbooks. But his coursework, "On motivation of crimes", he had to do himself in real criminal cases - he remembered it to the details. Then, at the end of the sixties, a resolution came out that the accused should carefully find out the motives of the crime and take them into account when issuing a sentence. Before this ruling was easier - for how many years you rushed, so much and sit. Here a student and assigned a hot topic for the course. Investigating her, he found a bunch of amazing cases of those years, one of which I will tell.
The man was accused of having arranged a gun armor in the middle of the day in the Vladivostok supermarket "Golden Horn". First he shot the roof, then the people. There were no casualties, but the bullets were pulled out of the door. A mass murder attempt, a terrorist attack. The criminal has almost been convicted, and this is your decision. I had to ask him about the motives. He calmly replied that it was a foolish drunken joke - he only gathered to shoot into the ceiling. It seemed to him, do you see that from a long time of peace the people became quite cowardly. If anything happens, no one will protect the country, not even they can stand for themselves. Here he checked the people for seamlessness - a man stands in the center of the hall, does not throw on anyone, burns strictly into the ceiling, in the rest behaves normally. And nobody tried to stop him, everybody drove away.
“Why did you start shooting at people?” The investigator asked him.
“You understand, when I opened the ceiling shooting, women panicked and the healthiest cockroaches were the first to jump to the door! I was very sorry for the men, so I stumbled on them! From the soul!”
Psychiatrists found no defects in the man. Except for a strong sense of justice. And for this, we are not in a psychic, only in jail. The appeal went to the court: "A mitigating circumstance - was extremely outraged by the non-Soviet behavior of individual citizens"