RE: Irene of Athens: the Christian Byzantine Empress who gouged her own son's eyes.
January 1, 2022 at 11:16 pm
(January 1, 2022 at 9:56 pm)WinterHold Wrote:(January 1, 2022 at 2:18 am)Astreja Wrote: I'm not happy about that either, Winter. At some point we have to simply say "This is bad, and it doesn't matter who's doing it, and it doesn't matter how they're trying to justify it." If an action is wrong, it's wrong in all contexts.
We must consider the "psychological trauma" that crimes leave when brutal penalties are mentioned as a cure for them: certain crimes leave a stigma; an almost permanent mark in the brain of the victim that keeps circulating if not cured & treated.
No; I reject that rationalization. The punishment must fit the crime and not surpass it, and taking away a living body part as retaliation for the loss of a non-living item is blatant injustice.
Always.
No. Fucking. Exceptions.
And any society that permits such injustice is a society that deserves to fail so that it can be replaced by a more sane one.
