Do people who believe in reincarnation...........?

Question

Do people who believe in reincarnation think deaht penalties are a waist of time.

I ment death not deaht

Answer 1

yeah, i kinda do.
the person is supposed to be here to do a certain thing, to learn a certain lesson. if you kill someone, for any reason, you cut short their time to learn that lesson & they will have to start over in the next life on the same lesson (or if they've been really bad, they regress). so if someone kills someone and they're supposed to learn that it's wrong, but they're killed before they fully realize that, they will just kill people again in the next life, unless they happen to learn that lesson early on in the next life.
but, who really knows?
mostly i think it's messed up to kill people, regardless. i don't see how the legal system can tell everyone it's wrong & then do it themselves, it's hypocritical.

Answer 2

Not I. I believe the death penalty is a horrible thing to do to another human being no matter how horrible the person might have been. I believe in rebirth and know that the person, when they DO die, will take rebirth according to their karma... of course though... OBVIOUSLY it is their karma to be reborn into a world, here, where people DO like to kill others based on their "judgements" of them. Just like it's my crappy karma to be reborn into a world where people are horrible to one another like this and do other forms of harm that causes suffering, and have done a lot of this "causing harm" myself... etc. and so forth. NOPE I'm not perfect even as a Buddhist.

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Answer 3

This will be quite a long story, so please pull up a chair.

My college boyfriend's sister was shot to death by her husband when my boyfriend was 13. The husband killed a friend she was staying with (she had left her husband, who had just begun to show signs of violence), trapped her in a back laundry room with only one door and no windows, then spent a good 10 minutes explaining to her why he was going to kill her and why she deserved to die before filling her with bullets (over a dozen were pulled from her chest and face). He then called his therapist, told her explicitly what he had done (which is how I know he explained to her for 10 minutes why he was going to kill her), said he knew it was wrong, and went on a rampage to the mall where she worked, taking the administrative offices hostage for several hours and shooting one woman in the leg.

When they tried him, the DA decided since there were rumors that my boyfriend's sister was having an affair with the dead friend (a man), she wouldn't risk trying the crimes separately, but would try them together. Since Arizona state law at the time said you couldn't ask for the death penalty except in cases of torture, and since the husband didn't have a criminal record, after he was found guilty the judge sentenced him to two terms, one 25 years and the other 35 years to be served concurrently, not consecutively. Apparently spending 10 minutes explaining to someone who can't escape that they are going to die and this is why they deserve it while they beg for their life after you've shot their best friend to death doesn't constitute torture, but I don't live in Arizona so I don't get a say.

My boyfriend's parents begged the DA to pursue the death penalty. Both of them spoke at length during the husband's sentencing about the damage he had done to their family. I met my boyfriend when he was 18 and we broke up when he was 21, and I witnessed his parents get divorced, his mother struggle with therapy (she'd already had a nervous breakdown), his father have a nervous breakdown and be institutionalized (it was at least the second time he'd had a nervous breakdown) and my boyfriend become completely and totally dependent on me, to the point where I was afraid to break things off with him for a very long time because I thought he might try to kill himself. He had severe abandonment issues, already suffered from ADD when his sister was killed, and was promptly shipped off to boarding school in Maine (they lived in California) after his sister's death because his parents honestly could not deal with his ADD problems and their own trauma.

As to the case of the death penalty and reincarnation. Is it a waste of time? Yes and no. In one sense, the person is going to come right back and continue learning the spiritual lessons that they clearly didn't learn the first time around, so what good does killing them do? In the other sense, they obviously were doing a crappy job of learning the spiritual lessons the first time around, if they ended up on death row, so it might make more sense just to cut this life off short and give them a shot to try again.

And, in terms of the suffering of the people left behind by those murdered, sometimes the death penalty is incredibly necessary for them to be able to close that chapter in their lives.

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Answer 4

Nope, It gives you a chance to start over with a clean sheet, only requiring that you pay for whatever harm you caused. So for instance, Elijah beheaded a bunch of false prophets, so that same soul as John the Baptist got HIS head lopped off years later. See?

Answer 5

no. Because If you did something real terrible to get the death penalty. before you get reincarnated you have to suffer for your mistake. I believe you will be taught a lesson before you can come back.

Answer 6

Most empirical studies of reincarnation lead to the conclusion that death is extremely unpleasant, so no.

Answer 7

Prison would be a worse fate. The death penalty merely does them a favor.

Answer 8

Well Saddam is probably a frog by now.

Answer 9

Nah.

Answer 10

Probably.