(December 6, 2015 at 5:08 pm)Sappho Wrote: Sorry for not being clear about that, but I meant : on what ground can we judge and sentence people, what is the motivation for the punishment (to paid for what is done or just to remove from society) and what can such a punishment be?This is easy, and it's a process, not a rule. If someone is behaving in a way you dislike, you look around. If other people also dislike the behavior, you agree to a rule. If someone breaks the rule, whether they agreed to it or not, you collectively exert your power to make him stop, or to punish him for his transgression. And then you sit someone at a big desk with a curly wig, and he reads a big fat book of these rules, and decides what happens to the people in front of him.
No Sky Daddy was involved, or at least needed to be involved, in any part of this.
