(September 19, 2016 at 6:23 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: What do you think is the appropriate restitution for murder? How would you pay the victim back for his suffering?
Good question. Short answer: I don't know but I don't think that matters. I'd suggest that sometimes restitution may not be possible from that perspective; some people would never be satisfied and it feels unethical to me to ask that of anyone. That would suggest that restitution to the individual would not be a matter for a state justice in the same way that the justice system dismisses individual feelings of what the appropriate punishment for a crime should be. Instead restitution could take the form of the perpetrator fulfilling certain responsibilities to the state, once rehabilitated.
There are many difficult questions inherent in invitational justice systems, many of which jar with popular views and sometimes entire cultural perspectives.
(September 19, 2016 at 12:22 pm)RobertE Wrote: ...if anything like that should ever happen to my daughters like that, I personally would swing for the cnut. I would wait of course to see if justice has been done. Either way, they attack my daughters, either the state executes them or I will.
And this illustrates my point why ethical justice systems don't take individual views in to account.
Sum ergo sum
