This question is mainly for Marvel fans, but the character Daredevil is a superhero/vigilante who’s a lawyer, mainly a defense attorney. I get he’s about upholding justice and helping the little guy, but wouldn’t it make more sense for the character to be a prosecutor or a civil rights attorney rather than a defense attorney?
I get not everyone is guilty, and a lot of people get screwed over, but let’s be honest: most of the time, defense attorneys defend people who are, more often than not, guilty of crimes. If Matt’s whole character is about justice, wouldn’t it make more sense for him to be a prosecutor, use his hearing to decide if the person is guilty or not, and achieve justice that way? Or become a civil rights attorney?
The law spends more time helping the rich abuse the poor than it does judging people who are actually guilty. Matt doesn’t want to be the guy arguing that a kid who smoked a bowl of pot deserves jail time.
Matt helps people with no money and no power defend themselves from people with lots of money and lots of power. The key word is “defend”. He doesn’t put on the horns to go beat up people who are guilty… Most of the time. He puts on the horns so he can go protect the lady he hears being beaten by her husband while he’s trying to sleep.