(March 18, 2021 at 4:45 pm)Klorophyll Wrote:(March 18, 2021 at 4:13 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Justice is the antithesis of mercy. If Allah is ‘the most merciful’ (as he is described in the instructional manual), does that mean he is ‘the least just’?
Boru
Yeah have fun asserting that justice is incompatible with mercy. I don't agree with that. If a judge is just and instructs the right decision for any situation, it doesn't undermine his justness if he decides not to punish someone for some petty offense like disorderly conduct.
Actually, that is precisely what the judge is doing. If he decides not to punish, or even to punish at a lesser degree that the law calls for, he is abrogating justice for mercy.
One the whole, I prefer mercy, but it’s simply thickheaded to suppose that both can be dispensed in the same instance.
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
