Pattern-chaser wrote: ↑August 12th, 2024, 7:56 am
It's hard to see how "justice can only be served through retribution". Maybe an example would illustrate your point?
Who will stop the psychopaths? We will, by imprisonment or some similar form of constraint, protecting those who have not yet been harmed. Can vengeance do that?
And no one ever mentions the victims in this - i find it frightening!
how does putting the criminal in jail or punishing them help the victim?
If a father loses his daughter to an abductor, does the father or mother care that the criminal has died a cruel death or worse?
They want their daughter back - that is what is of the most importance
And yet thru all these replies not one mention of the victim, how they feel, what they want! nothing!
Where is the Justice for them?
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We recently have had a shooting in Georgia - 4 innocent lives lost
So the criminal has been caught, he will be jailed for life
But how does help the living victims of these 4 victims?
Those kids mother and father will never see their kids again, never hug them. No more birthday celebrations, every time their birthdays come along, these parents will sit and cry! Every time one of their classmates goes off to college or graduates or gets married - they will be reminded of their lost loved ones! A heartache they will bear all their lives!
And the two teachers that were killed - their children have lost a father, a mother! Now the single parent will struggle to bring them up!
I was witness to such a tragedy - on a cold Chicago night in December, while waiting for the bus, I was approached by a young woman asking for help, a few bucks. We got to talking and she said she had a happy childhood - a nice middle class childhood - a life full of dreams. And then her doing father died, a new man entered her mother's life and then started the abuse at night, while the mother looked the other way. Unable to bear it, she took to the streets! Her life now destroyed, a life of hopes and dreams gone!
Something like that could happen to those kids who lost their mother and father in this tragedy!
And what about those two kids who lost their lives? At that age, sports, full of dreams of the future - all gone! Where is the justice for them?
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I blame religion and our movies - religion says God can only provide vengeance - will torture the criminal don't worry!
huh? The victims are crying about their lost daughter and the answer is the criminal will be punished?
how come God does nothing for the victims?
And of course what the victims are not told is how nice God will forgive this criminal if he repents!
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Our movies do not like Justice - Justice is slow, non-violent - whereas vengeance is fast, quick and very, very violent
In movies like "Kill Bill" we see the victim suffer in the beginning and then we are entertained to a kill-fest - one by one the criminals are hunted down and killed! yep! done!
But did the victim get their loved ones back? Did they get their life back? Their hopes and dreams of a great future?
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Please stop calling putting the criminal in jail or being punished as Justice being done
It is but vengeance, not Justice!