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[BrianSoddingBoru4]

If I understand what you're getting at (and there's no guarantee that I do), no one here is saying that thievery shouldn't be punished. 

But do you really believe that kid who swipes a magazine from a news kiosk deserves the same level of punishment as does the perpetrator of a Ponzi scheme that bilks millions of people out of billions of dollars?

Boru

In this comment in page 2 I did mention that kids should be excepted from the rule because they didn't satisfy the mental capability to grasp the consequence of their action:

https://atheistforums.org/thread-61009-p...pid1976065

WinterHold said:

To approve a punishment, the condemned needs to satisfy the age and the mental capability to realize their crime.

A child is not mentally capable of realizing the consequence of their actions.

‘Kid’ is a relative term. You know full well what I meant: Does the theft of a $10 magazine merit the same punishment as the theft of $100 billion dollars, a theft that destroys the lives and security of hundreds of thousands of people?

Let’s put the hand-chopping aside for the moment: should those two crimes be punished at the same level of ANY kind of punishment?

Boru