Thread: Eye for an Eye
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Old 12-16-2008, 09:44 AM   #18 (permalink)
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I wish we would allow such things, such as castration for serial rapist and such. What do you think?
I think this is an odd thing to wish for.

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If it's decided that this brutal individual gets to keep his eyes ( and for the record, i'm for making him blind), then this individual should be made her financial caretaker, meaning every dime he makes should go to her.
And the state takes care of him?

It's probably no surprise that I think the question posed by the OP is totally ridiculous and anyone who says they support state-sanctioned barbarism hasn't a clue what they are endorsing and if they did live in such a place they would be terrified. That's what I think. It's all good until it's your little Bobby or Billy Sue is being strapped to a piece of wood and caned.

Do you not consider the implications at all of a society that endorses brutal violence as a means of justice? Or do you suppose we will stay just as we are only with a system that carries out maiming and torture as a means of doling out justice? Who is going to carry out these punishments? Do you suppose that they will be sane, reasonable people?

Get a grip people.
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