An Eye for an Eye?

@Wordsworth50 wrote:

@taffyfish wrote:

…so you do believe in an eye for an eye for your child.
Also if asking you a question was insulting then i apologise!!
We are all entitled to our own opinions so moving on….

Taffyfish, I’m sorry if my answer was not clear, but I believe the subject is important enough to try once more. In the absence of anything further directed at me personally, I shall then move on.

I do believe that some questions, but by no means all, can be insulting, particularly if they suggest something negative about the person to whom they are directed.

I do not believe in an eye for an eye even for my own child. As I said, it is a destructive and ultimately unfruitful course of action.

However as an emotional reaction to any hurt to people I care about, it would be dishonest for me to pretend I would feel otherwise. Predictably, I would want revenge, but I do not believe that my personal revenge is a good basis for law, otherwise my old sixth form head would be subject to torture even now, for hurts real and imagined.

One of the functions of law is to enhance a society’s chances of survival, so it is important to prevent the kind of public vendettas which I believe my human instincts would provoke.

Even in the case of my own child, the punishment of any person convicted of a crime against them should, most emphatically, NOT be the enactment of the same crime on the guilty by the state or anyone else, despite any hurt or anger felt on my own part.

Like i said…moving on…. :?

@Wordsworth50 wrote:

@thin ice wrote:

@Wordsworth50 wrote:

@thin ice wrote:

what about cheating on your seriously ill husband
what punishment for that
hmmmm

Thin, it’s a shame that you’re hijacking this for unrelated personal point-scoring. Bootscardgate was dead and buried as far as I know, so the “joke” is wearing a bit thin (see what I did there?).

And is it the cheating or the serious illness that suggests punishment to you?

thank you for your valued input wordsworth
but please dont hi jack this thread by trying to dictate its content :roll:

thank you for your measured response Thin Ice, but please don’t evade answering a question by telling me not to do something I have not attempted.

dear mr wordsworth
i answer to no one :P

@mrs_teapot wrote:

@thin ice wrote:

@Wordsworth50 wrote:

@thin ice wrote:

@Wordsworth50 wrote:

@thin ice wrote:

what about cheating on your seriously ill husband
what punishment for that
hmmmm

Thin, it’s a shame that you’re hijacking this for unrelated personal point-scoring. Bootscardgate was dead and buried as far as I know, so the “joke” is wearing a bit thin (see what I did there?).

And is it the cheating or the serious illness that suggests punishment to you?

thank you for your valued input wordsworth
but please dont hi jack this thread by trying to dictate its content :roll:

thank you for your measured response Thin Ice, but please don’t evade answering a question by telling me not to do something I have not attempted.

dear mr wordsworth
i answer to no one :P

Testosterone :roll:

definatley not :shock:

@thin ice wrote:

dear mr wordsworth
i answer to no one :P

Indubitably! :lol: :lol:

@taffyfish wrote:

Like i said…moving on…. :?

Where ya goin? :lol: