01-18-2007, 04:00 PM
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| Account Deleted Join Date: Dec 2006 Gender:  Posts: 3,738 Country:  Points: 16,625, Level: 82 | Level up: 55%, 225 Points needed |  |  Quote:
You mean it sounded like I was ending an essay or something? Sorry, I tend to end my posts like that sometimes.
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All the same, forgiveness can consider the need of the criminal, but justice must be the primary responsibility of the courts and that first, most and always on behalf of the victim.
I disagree that "Justice" should be the primary responsibility of the courts. "Justice", in my opinion, is the politically-correct way of saying "revenge". I mean, what is Justice? Justice is when a criminal hurts a victim, so in return, we punish the criminal for the sake of the victim. That's revenge.
Instead, I think the primary responsibility of the courts should be assuring that a reasonable punishment is delivered for each crime, in order to prevent crime and protect people from criminals. Delivering exceptionally cruel punishment, such as castration, is not a reasonable punishment.
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| First Jaxian, no need to apologize. I found your words stylin' ! But I must go on record to also say I find them wrong!  Justice exacted in a court of law is exactly what the courts were purposed to do...heck, you've surely seen the depiction of the court system in the Lady Justice! I truly believe that the courts are to mete out sentences thaat are fair, punitive AND corrective in nature. That there is much to be said for restorative justice. In many kinds of criminal activities, restoration is possible. I am not in any post here adding my approval of castration. Though the OP did initiate such a consideration, any post I contributed did not condone that practice as right or viable. However for you to conclude that castration is unusally cruel, you might have a very hard time convincing someone that it is so, if that someone is a mother who has spent years after the fact of sexual abuse, trying to pick up the fractured hearts and lives of her children. Fractured and overwhelmed by the frenzied actions of a man that worked a most cruel and unnecessary act upon the trusting innocence of a child! OD |