(December 17, 2016 at 10:40 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote: You commit a violent crime, you do the time to insure societal safety, regardless of whether or not you are forgiven by anyone.
A presidential pardon is a legal commutation of a person's sentence. If the president were aware that this person had made a change in his life that he felt was sufficient to ensure societal safety, then he is doing no wrong by releasing him early. Now, if the reason for a prison term is to punish the person for the crime committed, then there is an interesting question-- does this man's salvation through his faith in Jesus matter in the disposition of legal justice by the court?
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
