Junker and Kohlhaas

After reading the story, I pondered upon the idea of what kind of man the Junker was. At first glance, he seems like just a criminal, a no-good man with no moralistic intentions. However, after reading about his fleeings and his hiding, it is apparent that the Junker is a coward. This realization made me think about the type of man Kohlhaas was. In class discussion, it was very hard to differentiate between whether Kohlhaas's actions were to be admired or looked down upon. Also, were his actions justified by the loss of his wife and the unfair treatment of the law? I think to answer this, one must really look back upon their own morals. People can relate this situation to people on death row. Perhaps a serial killer murdered 2 families, but his justification was that his father had beat him as a child, is an audience supposed to feel sorry for the killer or angry and disgusted.
Kohlhaas did try to solve the problem by doing legitimate things, such as going to court. But, since the system was corrupt, Kohlhaas never received any unbiased representation. This could be a justification in itself. However, does that equal the lives of family and children that were lost to his rampage of upright anger? This question would have to then be connected to the loss of his wife. Here, I could feel more sympathy than the unfair law system. This is because he lost something he can never get back. A wife, a human being, is bigger and more significantly important than a couple of horses.
So, at the end of my analysis, I ended up with the thesis that the Junker is a coward and the Kohlhaas is someone that cannot be named good or bad, and if one wanted to put him in any category, it would be completely up to a personal bias.