That’s a fair point. Then allow me to rephrase. To what degree should sympathy affect the law? For me the law is almost binary; you did it or you didn’t do it. I understand the why a person does something might affect sentencing, but I’m trying to get my head around the justifiableness of a crime.
"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post
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