When answering that one, please tell me the difference between Justice and Revenge in your mind. In other words, Is "an eye for an eye" justice or revenge? Or you seriously don't give a damn as long as the mofo dies?
2006-11-16 05:19:11 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It lets people off to easy.
love and blessings Don
2006-11-16 05:21:14 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'll answer in reverse order:
1. "an eye for an eye" was meant for justice. In pagan cultures, punishment was oftenout of proportion. The Biblical injunction for Israel's public laws was that you were not allowed to exact a punishment that was greater than the crime.
2. justice or revenge? Revenge should be left up to God. It is not satisfying. If I take "justice" into my own hands, I am probably going for revenge. It's true, there is a narrow margin between the two.
3. the death penalty? I agree with it in theory. But for the past couple of years or so my position has been that in a referendum I would vote against it. The reason is what I observe in both the Canadian and American justice system. After long drawn out court trials, penalty is exacted sometimes 15-20 years after the fact. That doesn't make sense. Also, too many people have been condemned because they were set up. Too much corruption. Here in Canada a number of people who were in prison for life (we don't have death penalty) have now been freed because of DNA evidence. They were not guilty in the first place. What if they had been put to death?
2006-11-16 05:28:35 · answer #2 · answered by Mr Ed 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I believe in Justice and I believe in the death penalty, It's to bad that it has become a joke in the justice system. No one is accountable, they throw the death penalty around like it's arena football. No one takes it serious, even the states that have it don't use it, If your found guilty of capital murder or murder 1, and sentenced to death, you've still got another good 15 to 20 years left before the deed is done. It's a joke.... To answer your other ? Justice is what occurs when you've gone through all the hoops and your punishment fits the crime. Revenge is a personal emotion, usually doesn't occur with strangers just with those whom have been hurt or has suffered from the deed of the criminal....They want to see him suffer and feel the pain that he has caused(thats revenge).And I do give a damn.. You don't want to see the wrong one convicted or sentenced.
2006-11-16 05:36:45 · answer #3 · answered by MKM 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
If someone kills a member of my family and I in turn go out and take their life, then that is revenge. If society decides that they must pay with their life for their crime, then that is justice. The person is just as dead either way, but one way does it by the law and the other doesn't. And yes, for some crimes, I am in favor of the death penalty.
2006-11-16 05:24:16 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I used to be a staunch believer of the death penalty... but I've relented since then and I no longer support it now.
In my opinion, it's not up to ANY of us to kill another Human being. In fact we shouldn't KILL at all, as it is written...
"An eye for an eye" is one of the hundred or so Mosaic laws that represented Justice in the old dispensation. Today, people use that lame excuse for Revenge...
Peace be with you.
2006-11-16 05:49:06 · answer #5 · answered by Arf Bee 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
to tell u the truth, yesterday i found out there are quite a few christians who do believe in the death penalty. i showed some verses that god killed people. they claimed, god gave life so he has the right to take away. be that the case then mother/father gave life to their children should then have the right to take it away. (biblical definition, we are sons/daughters of man not of god). others said he did it cause they were evil and deserved to die, which coincides with the death penalty for people who are "evil". meh i think it depends on the crime and the circumstance. rapists, child molesters, should, many are released and caught again for same crime. obviously rehab doesnt work.
its not so much justice/revenge as it is protecting from future happenings. why should we keep releasing them so they can commite the same crime on others... we need to put our foot down and put a stop to this.
2006-11-16 05:28:34 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe that "eye for an eye" in a revenge term. I think that it is revenge because where would it stop. A man kills a girl, the man is excuted. The son of that man may go out and seek revenge on the person's family, then you have serial killers on your hands
2006-11-16 05:29:07 · answer #7 · answered by danicolegirl 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In principle I do. It is a just punishment for those guilty of certain crimes. That said, there must be a higher burden of proof to sentence one to death than to find one guilty of a capital crime. With such a higher standard, it would be almost impossible to sentence someone to death, and that's fine with me. The death penalty should only be reserved for the worst of the worst and then, only when there is absolutely no doubt as to the guilt of the defendant. In a capital case, beyond a reasonable doubt just doesn't cut it with me as being a high enough standard to warrant death.
2006-11-16 05:27:42 · answer #8 · answered by mzJakes 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Revenge is when to vic.s brother (just an example) goes out a tortures then killes the guy that killed his sister.
Justice is when the murderer is held, put on trial, convicted of the crime, and he must be punished by death. which I'm sure is painless.
And I BELIEVE IN THE DEATH PENALTY!!!!!
2006-11-16 05:27:40 · answer #9 · answered by ♥Blondie♥ 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
specific it particularly is Biblical. The dying penalty grew to become into ordinary as a human judicial regulation via the God Yahweh Himself and is one in all His Mosaic regulations which lots of those regulations have been judicial regulations for a united states of america to run it particularly is government via. it particularly is purpose grew to become into to the two eliminate the regulation breaking individual from society and scare the the remainder of the people into controlling their strikes in the different case an identical might take place to them. Yahweh Himself is being quoted in the Bible talking and coaching this dying penalty regulation to Moses after the Israelites exodus from being slaves of Egypt. The dying penalty grew to become into and nonetheless is considered a justified killing of a convicted criminal and not an act of homicide in the eyes of our God.
2016-10-22 05:04:19 · answer #10 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, I don't believe in it for many reasons. First, I don't believe it is justice. Second, because I don't feel I have the right to say who should live and who should die. Third, now, with DNA testing, people are being proven innocent of crimes they were convicted of commiting decades ago. Even one person wrongly executed is WRONG.
2006-11-16 05:59:21 · answer #11 · answered by milomax 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋