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Originally Posted by martinguerre
This isn't the first time. In cases where there are no complicating factors, there is still silence. Most incidents of this kind are left out of human rights reports, and statements are simply not made concerning anti-queer violence.
The rest of your post. I don't know what to say to be convincing, but i hope that it is realized that the price of affirming your argument would be that every single law, everywhere would be considered just. This clearly is not the case in my mind. Without resorting to extreme examples, i think history records plenty of laws later seen to be quite unjust in content and application. If a nation banned heterosexual acts under pain of death, would you consider the resulting fatalities to be just?
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If i break a law, no matter how I feel about the law, I feel it is just that I am punished and serve the sentence imposed by said law, even if that means I am to be put to death. If heterosexual acts were to become punishable by death today, and I were to participate in that behavior, yes my being put to death would be just. Do not misunderstand I think the law banning homosexuality under penalty of death is ridiculous,even appalling, I believe that we agree on that point. My point is that these guys knew the risk they were taking and chose to participate anyways. To me, the law itself is disgusting, but these guys being put to death for breaking the law is not sad, unfair, or unjust. They were in my opinion given a perfectly fair and appropriate sentence. If the law said you were to be put to death for eating chocolate, and they ate chocolate I would feel the same way. I could care less what law these guys broke, they knew the penalty for the law they chose to break and they broke it anyway.