Poll: Eye for an eye, what do you think?

[The_Prophet]

No, It's primitive. Except in crime punishment.
EDIT: Some crimes.

 

[Robby Foxfur]

however if you exceed the limit and its is proven then you don't wait on death row they shoot you right in court, (sure would make jury duty more exciting). Again terrible acts wouldn't be, like rape = you get raped but rather you do it twice, castration (chemicaly), 3 time and well you have exceeded your worth a a person and bam dead.

You'd also hear some really creative excuses for getting out of jury duty. But at least the fundie gun nuts would all be clamoring to get jury duty, just so they could watch someone die.

Dammit, I wasn't intending a double.

yes and then they could excuse their ak 47s and such this systems solves so many problems lets do IT!

 

[ottenni]

I cant say i believe in it. Partially because i cant see people accepting their half of the deal except when it benefits them. Not that people ever will. And then sometimes it wouldn't even work. Would a serial killer and a drunk driver who killed someone get the same punishment?

 

[Latinidiot]

It should officially bnot be an eye for an eye
how can you be civilised if you punish someone with what he is being punished for?

 

[Buffoon]

Yeesh... as usual when a topic regarding morality or ethics comes up I'm astonished at how simplistic and black-and-white many peoples' views are. I'm just glad that I personally live in a country where the justice system is a lot more sophisticated than it might otherwise be.

Anyway, an eye for an eye? No, for so, so many reasons.

 

[Robert632]

people would abuse the eye for an eye system just like they do our system, but this one would be harder to track down who is lying, unless they had security cameras on everything, which wiould piss everyone off.

 

[Faulty Turmoil]

To quote Ghandi "An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind."

 

[funguy2121]

I don't like the whole "eye for an eye" solution. For example: If someone commits murder, I like the idea of them slowing rotting in jail rather than say a lethal injection. To me, it just seems like the criminal is getting out of his punishment rather than serving it.

Well with 3 meals a day, dental care, and health care most jailed people in america have it better off in jail then a homeless man. Which is why some homeless people break windows of stores to get in jail when life is really bad for them. Of course there is the chance of rape in jail.

Ignorance. How do you weigh the "chance" of rape vs. the notion that, well, he's better off than a homeless person! How do you even know that? Is the homeless person couch surfing, or living under a bridge? Does the homeless person have a job? I've never heard of a homeless person committing a crime specifically to be punished, unless of course the guy was crazy. And of course it would all be worth it to be stripped of your manhood and made into a *****. But hey, free HBO and free weights, right?

Here is a something for you crazy hentai freaks to drool over...

Edit: Ha, that kid said that the nuke ushered in an era of peace. But of course it did...

 

[funguy2121]

I am firmly of the opinion that the Eye for an Eye principle should apply in punishments for violent crime.

That said, I am vehemently against the current system of capital punishment. As it stands, it takes decades for people to go from convicted -> dead. Ideally, each case gets 2 appeals. If all three find the defendant guilty, the victim (or government appointed representative if the victim is incapable) drags the son of a ***** out of the court and blows their head off right outside the courtroom. Preferably while being broadcast on national television.

The stupid bullshit with lethal injections and the "humane" crap they use for the most part nowadays, always done behind closed doors and with basically no publicity just isn't the way to do it. I just don't like the inherent lie involved in it.

Thank God the Escapist isn't running the government.

 

[inpachi]

I love it how human society thinks of murder and rape as such horrific things.. But i mean really is murder truly that bad that the person who commits it deserves to die right then and there? For instance if everyone on the planet was starving for whatever reason and there was just one house in all of the world that still had some sort of food in it HANDS DOWN I CAN BET YOU THAT EVERYONE AND I MEAN EVERYONE WILL BE KILLING EACH OTHER TRYING TO GET TO THAT DAMN HOUSE... So is murder only bad when we are trying to be so called civilized? Look what civilization has brought us.. Just better ways of killing each other and bigger impacts on the world around us.. Even big break throughs in medical science has brought nothing but a neutral outcome.. Because every advance in medicine brings yet another way to kill someone.. So i say this Screw society and lets restart.. Re raise ourselves from greedy pitiful creatures and use the minds we were gifted with to progress our race instead of destroying it.. I wish human society had a huge reset button.. Because i think some point in our growing up we took a wrong turn and ended up in the muddy swamps fighting over the last boat to get back instead of the golden paradise we were promised. So no i think that A Eye For A Eye is a completely worthless concept. Because Murder And Rape are not nearly as bad as people make them out to be.. It is perfectly common in the animal kingdom yet they manage to survive in harsher environments than you could ever imagine.. Until this world changes there are the ones that survive and the ones that dont.. Its a sad world but its what we got so deal with it.. Unless you wish to change it then get off your ass and do something.. Raise your children differently so they will raise theres differently.. So called goodness starts with one persons action.

 

[LCP]

I like more the eye for an arm, leg and eye approach

 

[Crossborder]

How would that work with rape? Do i even want to know?

 

[Johnnyallstar]

Just wanting to put a little bit of flesh on the old bones being dredged up. When the "Eye for an Eye" policy was brought to the Israelites it wasn't meant to be a mode of revenge, or justice. It was a restraining order to bring society to being a little more humane. Before this, raping somebody's sister meant they would burn your entire city to the ground and kill everyone.

Most people think that eye for an eye is heartless and cold and extreme, but that's because their pampered asses haven't ever thought of what it was like before people started being more humane. It was one small step for progressing society.

 

[Asturiel]

I think an eye for an eye is a good way for it to work. Turning the other cheek accomplishes nothing other than having both your cheeks slapped.

Ok dude do you understand why Jesus said to turn the other cheek? Sure it was for forgivness but more importantly it made the offender a complete jackass. If the person hit you on the one cheek then it was ok but if they hit the wrong cheek then suddenly he looks like a complete moron and douche. It doesnt do anything in todays society but end the conflict there if you handle it properly. If you keep wanting exact retribution for what happened SOMEBODY isnt going to be satisfied and take it into their own hands. We as human's cant accept that it's over we have to respark the fires of war and conflict because we believe it's not enough until an entire country is soaked in blood... and ejecting from our planet...and sent into a black hole of spiders.

 

[Galletea]

I think that a lot of people who do the most terrible of crimes either think they won't get caught or don't care about the punishment, even if that means death. I don't see how making the punishment less humane would prevent these crimes from happening, considering the mindset of the worst criminals. All this would achieve is those people carrying out justice would be no better than the criminals themselves.

 

[Asturiel]

Fucking pacifists.

Yeah, those damned peaceniks with their "love" and their protests and there occasional ability to bring the world to its next stage of freedom and civil liberties (Gandhi, King, Mandela), and their superior abilities as lovers, and their far stronger musical abilities, and their ability to see flaws in themselves as well as others...man, what asshats!

Thank you

 

[funguy2121]

I think that a lot of people who do the most terrible of crimes either think they won't get caught or don't care about the punishment, even if that means death. I don't see how making the punishment less humane would prevent these crimes from happening, considering the mindset of the worst criminals. All this would achieve is those people carrying out justice would be no better than the criminals themselves.

Feel free to fact-check me, people.

Seems to me that we can categorize murder as premeditated, or not premeditated, because we do. Obviously if it's not premeditated then no amount of harsh sentencing is going to serve as a deterrent, so let's set that aside. Premeditated murder encompasses what motives? Revenge, money, some dipshit trying to enter a gang, one who has no real grasp of reality? Are these people going to be deterred by a death penalty?

Once again: I am a Texan. Look up our record. In addition to being the state that in 2004 tried to simultaneously outlaw sodomy and repeal the law against beastiality, we kill more people than any other state and we're up there with China. That's the more than a billion citizens China. Our last president bragged about a mentally retarded man being put to death on his watch as Texas governor. And our crime rate is still terrible. Dallas has horrible crime. Fort Worth has horrible crime. Houston's crime is horrendous. The last time I walked down Sixth St in Austin, a crackhead tried to reach out an touch an attractive companion of mine.

But the greater flaw in the argument for "eye for an eye" is that it either predates or rejects the notion that those who abide by or carry out the law are morally and ethically above those who break it. This is a neccessary component of that premise. And if that is a part of your premise, then why obey the law at all, why not turn vigilante and "take care of the problem" yourself? I mean, c'mon, we're all Batman here.

I'm sorry, I'm so sorry. Let's talk about Disney movies.

Here is Tim Curry as a clown.

And here are some pictures of dipshits.

 

[Motiv_]

Pretty sure I was ninja'd, but...

"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind"