Preach it brotha!

 

So she should be blind and disfigured, and he should remain pretty with a short sentence ?
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Punishment must fit the crime.
Theft in Mozambique under the Portuguese - lose a hand
Second offence, lose the other one
This has a special significance if you're a Muslim.....
Very little theft there, then.

Adultery in the Arab world carries a penalty of 1000 lashes for men
There's no skin on your bones after the first 50.......
Women are still stoned to death.......
Agree with X

 

That´s only because it gets harder and harder to steal things when you have no hands. Duh!

 

Actually they cut off your right hand first...
On the Muslim world your left hand is considered "unclean" ( the only thing the left hand is used for is to wipe yourself after relieving yourself ) so loosing the right hand makes them a social "Pariah", and perpetually unclean in their religion's eyes... basically forced to either depend on others for their evry need, or use their "toilet paper" to perform their evry function.

(Imagine having soiled toilet paper wrapped arround your left hand constantly... that's what the left hand is considered in the muslim world)

 

Maybe a system little more geared to the Hebrew law would bring moral order to Western society but good luck with getting rid of the lawyers lol

 

Without getting political, all I can say is knowing close people having to live through some of those regimes, be careful what you wish for, the negatives FAR outweigh the positives in a system where violence begets violence.

 

Whole heartedly agree...

My utopian view of society, (and philosophical lamentation since we seem to have forgotten it) is the third chorusto "America the Beautiful"

"America... America, God mend thine evry flaw
Confirm thine soul IN SELF CONTROL
Thine LIBERTY, in LAW!"

I think the pendulum has swung too wide to the side of "liberty" and has gone beyond, to inmorality, and anarchy. but going back to draconian measures, and despotic regimes is most definately NOT the answer.

Ideally, society should have individual liberties guaranteed... but tempered by Individual responsibility, and due regard for the good of society as a whole. Not because you're forced to, but because you feel it is the right thing to do.

 

The word is accountability.

 

I must admit I was trolling there, take his eyes out, burn his face with acid.

 

An eye for an eye according to the syariah (muslim) law seems to be practical where justice will be prevailed but not all the times. In fact there are more weaknesses. For example a person can only be convicted if the victim can produce four eye witnesses. There are so many cases in Pakistan where women were raped but the rapist were left unscarred because of this system.