Post by Lerkurlian Tamer on Feb 15, 2007 5:00:25 GMT -5
There's a few problems I have. One of the things I have problems with is my fear of driving. Mainly because if I have an accident and kill someone, I will be locked up for it. It's a shame though, because in that sense, everyone has the potential to kill, and there's a probability every single day that it might happen.
Okay, let's put this into perspective. What are the purpose of punishments? Simple, it's a strong way of telling the one in the wrong to not make that mistake again. This is the same, from deciplining kids to imprisoning criminals.
...but we also imprison ones who kill by accident. Who kill as self-defense. Why? Well I don't know much about law, but it seems to me that it's because people press charges aginst them. That isn't getting justice, it's getting revenge. And that my friends... isn't an excusable reason to punish someone. The justice system still punishes everyone that happen to kill, even though some kill in different contexts.
Let's be hypothetacal for just a minute. Let's not convict a handful of killers and let them walk free, just for this test. Some would want to kill again... the true psychopaths and murderers. But others would go about their normal lives, no killing intent, no one around them in danger of getting killed by them. It'd just be as if a soldier came home to his family after killing for his country.
Why put someone in jail because they were so unlucky as to hit another car on the road because of some random occurence? If it's to convince them not to do it again, that is impossible. They have the same killing intent as the rest of us. If they deserve to have their life thrown away because someone wants revenge on them for accidentally killing their 9-year-old child in a car accident, I think all of us deserve it. Cirtainly not only the unlucky ones that did accidentally kill.
The media has characters who are "just" in that if they kill accidentally or in self-defense, they turn themselves in. Of course it's the right thing to do in the fact that it's the law of the land, but when they have no intent to kill in the first place, when they're willing to turn themselves in(some even say "I'm a killer, it'll get one more horrible killer off the streets!"), then they shouldn't be punished in the first place.
And no one's willing to change the justice system to prevent innocent people of having their lives ruined by a random mishap? No one's stepping up to invent a device that detects killing intent from REAL criminals? No one's even trying to stop the jailing of innocents because someone wants unjust revenge on them...
And that folks, is why this world is still in the dark ages.
Okay, let's put this into perspective. What are the purpose of punishments? Simple, it's a strong way of telling the one in the wrong to not make that mistake again. This is the same, from deciplining kids to imprisoning criminals.
...but we also imprison ones who kill by accident. Who kill as self-defense. Why? Well I don't know much about law, but it seems to me that it's because people press charges aginst them. That isn't getting justice, it's getting revenge. And that my friends... isn't an excusable reason to punish someone. The justice system still punishes everyone that happen to kill, even though some kill in different contexts.
Let's be hypothetacal for just a minute. Let's not convict a handful of killers and let them walk free, just for this test. Some would want to kill again... the true psychopaths and murderers. But others would go about their normal lives, no killing intent, no one around them in danger of getting killed by them. It'd just be as if a soldier came home to his family after killing for his country.
Why put someone in jail because they were so unlucky as to hit another car on the road because of some random occurence? If it's to convince them not to do it again, that is impossible. They have the same killing intent as the rest of us. If they deserve to have their life thrown away because someone wants revenge on them for accidentally killing their 9-year-old child in a car accident, I think all of us deserve it. Cirtainly not only the unlucky ones that did accidentally kill.
The media has characters who are "just" in that if they kill accidentally or in self-defense, they turn themselves in. Of course it's the right thing to do in the fact that it's the law of the land, but when they have no intent to kill in the first place, when they're willing to turn themselves in(some even say "I'm a killer, it'll get one more horrible killer off the streets!"), then they shouldn't be punished in the first place.
And no one's willing to change the justice system to prevent innocent people of having their lives ruined by a random mishap? No one's stepping up to invent a device that detects killing intent from REAL criminals? No one's even trying to stop the jailing of innocents because someone wants unjust revenge on them...
And that folks, is why this world is still in the dark ages.
