Crucifer wrote:Yeah, but who are we to say who really deserves what, and to what extent?
Well, someone has to decide who deserves what and to what extent, otherwise our justice system doesn't really work.
Anthy, I don't think you're alone in feeling that at all. Because I feel it too, sometimes. I know that, like
Mith pointed out, I would never want someone to suffer such "retribution" if I had to watch it. I don't think I could ever watch something like that without wanting to Oedipize my eyes.
But still...some part of me deep down just feels vindicated when I hear that, say, a rapist has been beaten in prison. I
know that it's horrible and wrong, and I
feel that it's horrible and wrong. And yet--a little part of me just can't help but think that that person got what was coming to them. What goes around comes around, you know? The ultimate karma. However, I could never inflict such retribution on someone myself, nor do I think I could allow it to happen if I had any control over the situation.
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holbytla wrote:Is it better to wake up every day for 30, 40, 50, 60 years and live the agonized life of a murderer, or to be executed and have your sad existence ended?
No, I don't think it's better at all. In fact, that is one of the reasons I am mostly against the death penalty. The best punishment comes from your own mind, and that is something that life in prison allows while capital punishment often does not.