RE: Islam
May 21, 2020 at 3:29 pm
(This post was last modified: May 21, 2020 at 3:35 pm by BrianSoddingBoru4.)
(May 21, 2020 at 3:25 pm)WinterHold Wrote:(May 21, 2020 at 3:17 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: If I understand what you're getting at (and there's no guarantee that I do), no one here is saying that thievery shouldn't be punished.
But do you really believe that kid who swipes a magazine from a news kiosk deserves the same level of punishment as does the perpetrator of a Ponzi scheme that bilks millions of people out of billions of dollars?
Boru
In this comment in page 2 I did mention that kids should be excepted from the rule because they didn't satisfy the mental capability to grasp the consequence of their action:
https://atheistforums.org/thread-61009-p...pid1976065
Quote:WinterHold said:
To approve a punishment, the condemned needs to satisfy the age and the mental capability to realize their crime.
A child is not mentally capable of realizing the consequence of their actions.
‘Kid’ is a relative term. You know full well what I meant: Does the theft of a $10 magazine merit the same punishment as the theft of $100 billion dollars, a theft that destroys the lives and security of hundreds of thousands of people?
Let’s put the hand-chopping aside for the moment: should those two crimes be punished at the same level of ANY kind of punishment?
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson