(October 22, 2015 at 11:00 am)Pandæmonium Wrote:(October 22, 2015 at 9:09 am)Mr Greene Wrote: The verdict seems solid.
There is a case to commute the sentence and protest the barbarity of it (as with all forms of capital and corporal punishment) but the guy knew full well what he was risking the moment he picked up the bottle.
Trying to claim he didn't commit a crime is inane.
The point was that the cultural relativism of the 'crime' is equally insane as the punishment for the crime itself (hence the argument belonging in the bin). It should not be a crime, and even if we bracket out that, the punishment is ridiculous.
Nobody insinuated that it wasn't a crime in Saudi. What is being argued is that it shouldn't be a crime at all. In that respect, it is indeed not a crime.
It is cultural relativism to acknowledge that sovereign countries set their own laws?
Last I heard SA wasn't a protectorate, You want to promote cultural imperialism, that's your problem.
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