(January 8, 2013 at 2:28 am)FallentoReason Wrote:(January 8, 2013 at 2:01 am)Lion IRC Wrote: How is justice served when an innocent person [willingly] takes on the consequences of the criminal's actions?
What's it got to do with you?
I'm not saying that to dismiss the question. I want you to think carefully about it.
If it doesnt affect you, no injustice is done to you.
If the grateful, humbled, and forgiven criminal learns a valuable lesson and is redeemed/rehabilitated, no injustice is done to you.
And if the crime has already been done you cant change an injustice that happened in the past. Just learn from it for a better future.
Why don't we have innocent people lining up to go to jail in place of the criminals in this day and age? Clearly justice doesn't work like that. The offender must serve their sentence for justice to be done.
Of course the Christians might argue that the woman who had been raped had never "accepted" Jesus. Therefore she went to hell after being raped and murdered. And the rapist confessed his sins at the last second -- and went to heaven..
