RE: Challenge regarding Christian morality
January 28, 2015 at 7:34 pm
(This post was last modified: January 28, 2015 at 7:37 pm by Dystopia.)
Quote:Justice is essentially fair punishment, hence an eye for an eye.An eye for an eye is the laziest, most uneducated definition of justice I've ever heard, because it completely misses out all the functions justice has in society.
The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom. - Aristotle
As for your question - Dealing with murderers is a complex question and criminology can't answer it in one or two lines because murder is by itself an extremely heterogeneous crime - There are many reasons to commit murder, many circumstances that lead to it, many aggravating and attenuating factors... But dealing with murder, or murderers, isn't just a matter of punishing those who commit the act itself; justice is preventive, mostly preventive, the reason why there are laws in the first place is for prevention... This means we can prevent murder not only by legislating but essentially by identifying the causes of murder, and know which ones can be prevented beforehand.
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you
