Quote Originally Posted by truthpaste View Post
Question: how does the Hague deal with those who are physically dead but didn't receive appropriate justice in this life? (Saville, West, Hitler etc)
Answer: it doesn't.

The fact that international institutions and legal/moral codes deal with the real world - not a supernatural and invented unreal world - is not a dilemma that requires a magical solution.

Saville, West, Hitler etc are dead and oblivious to any human judgement on their lives and crimes. Their reputations and their legacy mostly reflect the disgust felt by the majority of those with a knowledge and opinion.

Justice is for the here and now. 'Justice delayed is justice denied'.

Taking your example of Hitler, fighting fascism in Europe and beyond (80 years ago and now) is what should occupy us, not some fantasy about how a mass murderer will be judged by a made up deity in a made up afterlife.