(March 30, 2012 at 8:11 am)Faith No More Wrote: I do good on my own out of an understanding that it makes people feel better. I admit that makes me feel better too, but that is quite different from only doing good because I believe it will procure a place in paradise for my eternal soul.
Give away all your posessions, huh? I assume you have done this then?
C Rod Wrote:Are they still not punished for either crimes? Does the severity of the punishment correct the criminal's behavior?
I'm not sure what this has to do with our intentions being relevant to the moral standing of our actions.
That's the question, does the intentions or reasons for our moral actions matter?
Is not the idea of punishment for any crime, no matter how severe, justify its reason and purpose for moral correction, reparation, or deprivation because we acknowledge them as a wrong?
"Its not what your looking at that matters, its what you see." -Henry David Thoreau
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