RE: Irene of Athens: the Christian Byzantine Empress who gouged her own son's eyes.
January 2, 2022 at 12:31 am
(January 1, 2022 at 11:16 pm)Astreja Wrote:(January 1, 2022 at 9:56 pm)WinterHold Wrote: 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.
The brain is a living organ just like your hands. If you cause a permanent trauma to it then the person ceases to function probably:
Quote:Spending on mental health treatment and services reached $225 billion in 2019, according to an Open Minds Market Intelligence Report
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/10/cost-and...e%20Report.
In America alone, spending on keeping that organ away from permanent traumas & stigmas reached 225 billion $ in 2019 !!
Still, it is a society full of psychopaths and their mental health showed what level of apathy it reached in my civilisation's encounter with them in 2003 ! the Japanese told similar stories of utter psychopathy about their ancestors.
To each their view; but you can ask a an African parent who got their daughter raped and killed about where they would prefer her attacker to be trailed: a country where they would be imprisoned for life -with a chance of parole- or an Islamic country where they would be hanged probably.
