RE: Personal relationships with deities
January 3, 2016 at 10:46 am
(This post was last modified: January 3, 2016 at 10:47 am by Joods.)
(January 3, 2016 at 10:22 am)miaharun Wrote:(January 3, 2016 at 6:28 am)Losty Wrote: If it's a feeling that something is bad, then it stands to reason that every person has a right to decide for themselves what is bad and what is not bad. Correct?
Of course. Everyone has the right to feel and decide whats right and whats wrong.
Certain laws would disagree with you on that.
EXAMPLE:
You might feel it's wrong to murder someone.
A wife who's been beaten and abused by her alcoholic husband, might not think twice about popping a cap in his head while he's asleep and think there's nothing wrong with it.
The laws of their country might dictate that she be charged with first degree murder since she thought about it prior to acting on it, therefore making it premeditated. Since the husband was sleeping at the time, not abusing her, making him defenseless, she can't argue a position of self defense against the abuse.
A jury might, under those circumstances, find her guilty.
Was it wrong for her to be abused? Most would say so. I say most because some might argue that it depends on whether or not she was as equally abusive to her spouse as he was to her. Some would also say she could have had other options available. Some might say she chose to ignore those options.
This is a good example of why there are necessary laws in countries. Because not everyone thinks that vigilante justice is right, no matter what precipitated the end result and two wrongs don't make a right.
That said, my example was just that. An example. I do not advocate domestic violence.
Disclaimer: I am only responsible for what I say, not what you choose to understand.