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Newsflash: Iranian court hands out shockingly brutal, yet just punishment
- Thread starter CCA
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"Ooh! Look at me! I can interpret an idiom literally! I'm so witty!"
I don't see how any kind of justice system with predefined punishment vectors makes the world blind in either a literal or metaphorical sense. You could likewise say that our current justice system is blind because we have well-defined punishment and rehabilitation verdicts for various crimes.
Mowque
Hypermodernist
barbaric.....terrible that this stuff still goes on
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It was never about "predefined punishment". It was about a punishment in which the punishment was equal to the crime, as opposed to being proportionate to the crime. It's barbaric and unjust.
LucyDuke
staring at the clock
Do only criminals go to jail?
"eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind" is a stupid saying. I really like Iranian law. I like the family determines what happens to murderers, and I like that if you pour acid on someones face, you get acid on your face. To me, this is the very definition of justice.
Sharwood
Rich, doctor nephew
Hell no. There are many worse criminals putting the there, and doing the guarding.
Mise
isle of lucy
I thought that, under Sharia Law, if a woman spurns a man's marriage proposal, the woman would be stoned to death?
Huh...
Huh...
Sharwood
Rich, doctor nephew
Nope, that's if a 13 year old girl is raped, and has the temerity to mention it. Vile adultress.
LucyDuke
staring at the clock
I still say they should've stoned her, if they wanted true justice.
Sharwood
Rich, doctor nephew
Well, the Iranian government has always been soft on crime. Maybe if some evidence were found that she was homosexual... But no, wait, Iran doesn't have any of those.
Berzerker
Deity
In this case, if A is equal to B, it is also proportionate to B.
No, it's not. The idea of a "punishment fitting the crime" does not mean that you can steal someone's stuff as a punishment of them stealing your stuff, it just means that there's a just punishment that is proportional to the amount of damage done.
Neomega said:
Because it is essentially nothing more than saying "two wrongs make a right"
Two wrongs do not make a right.
The difference is, that if you e.g. kill my son, I am not entitled go all vendetta and kill your son, because he would be innocent. It would indeed be a case of "two wrongs not making a right".
However, in our case we would have a wrongdoing followed by a punishment as just as it can get. What kind of punishment would you have sentenced, and why would it be more "proportional"?
