Iran to blind criminal with acid in 'eye for an eye' justice

[Eoin247]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011...-criminal-acid

Just looking at the picture of this woman, i think that the man is actualy getting let off easy by just being blinded.

Of course we have all these human rights groups and western countries condeming this sentence. I don't usualy agree with Islamic law but right here i think they got it right.

Thoughts on this? Anybody think this sentence is too harsh? Or do you agree with it?

[Catzsy]

It makes me sick to think about this tbh. I really feel sorry for the woman but it does not mean in a civilised society
that people enforcing the punishment should act the same way. I do think a long prison sentence is appropriate though. Also she was not anaesthetised when it happened so it is not really 'an eye for an eye'.

[Mathew]

A human simply shouldn't have the authority to inflict something like this on another human, no matter what caused it or what job position they're in. We are all the same type of mammal, we all have brains and we all act similarly. I find it disgraceful.

By all means shove them in a cell, but all humans should treat each other with respect.

[AgnesIO]

A human simply shouldn't have the authority to inflict something like this on another human, no matter what caused it or what job position they're in. We are all the same type of mammal, we all have brains and we all act similarly. I find it disgraceful.

By all means shove them in a cell, but all humans should treat each other with respect.

How far does someone need to go to lose that respect though?

[Mathew]

How far does someone need to go to lose that respect though?

You should never lose respect for another human, it's as simple as that. I'm not gonna go all Communist on you because that's just odd, but we were all created in the same way, we need the same things to survive and we all die. We're the most intelligent animals on the planet and it's just completely immoral to do anything like that on someone of your own "breed".

On that note however, I do suppose I'm quite torn and hypocritical because I think the death penalty is justified in some cases. If you're stuck for life in prison for murdering 10 people, that's not a good quality of life. There was a news report a couple of days ago where a prisoner constantly tried to kill himself with knives, etc, but the prison guards had to keep him alive.

I don't know what to think, but I don't agree with making someone blind just so that it evens out the blow. Why sink to that level? I also think there is a high degree of ambiguity throughout this whole process.

[AgnesIO]

You should never lose respect for another human, it's as simple as that. I'm not gonna go all Communist on you because that's just odd, but we were all created in the same way, we need the same things to survive and we all die. We're the most intelligent animals on the planet and it's just completely immoral to do anything like that on someone of your own "breed".

On that note however, I do suppose I'm quite torn and hypocritical because I think the death penalty is justified in some cases. If you're stuck for life in prison for murdering 10 people, that's not a good quality of life. There was a news report a couple of days ago where a prisoner constantly tried to kill himself with knives, etc, but the prison guards had to keep him alive.

I don't know what to think, but I don't agree with making someone blind just so that it evens out the blow. Why sink to that level? I also think there is a high degree of ambiguity throughout this whole process.

However intelligent we may be, we are still animals. I don't understand how a prisnor got his hands on knives in the first place though - that is where the problem is. I don't necessarily agree with this punishment, but I think if you commit a serious crime you should lose any human rights you may have.

[Mathew]

However intelligent we may be, we are still animals. I don't understand how a prisnor got his hands on knives in the first place though - that is where the problem is. I don't necessarily agree with this punishment, but I think if you commit a serious crime you should lose any human rights you may have.

Define "serious"? It's way too ambiguous to even consider putting a law on it. You can't say that one person should be killed and another shouldn't - you can't choose favourites and you can't always be certain what the true story is. There's probably only one completely objective institution in this country, and that's the judical system.

[AgnesIO]

Define "serious"? It's way too ambiguous to even consider putting a law on it. You can't say that one person should be killed and another shouldn't - you can't choose favourites and you can't always be certain what the true story is. There's probably only one completely objective institution in this country, and that's the judical system.

Attempting to harm or end another's life.

[Mathew]

Attempting to harm or end another's life.

Define "harm"? Define "attempt"? How do you explain accidents or those with mental abnormality?

[Inseriousity.]

You should never lose respect for another human, it's as simple as that. I'm not gonna go all Communist on you because that's just odd, but we were all created in the same way, we need the same things to survive and we all die. We're the most intelligent animals on the planet and it's just completely immoral to do anything like that on someone of your own "breed".

On that note however, I do suppose I'm quite torn and hypocritical because I think the death penalty is justified in some cases. If you're stuck for life in prison for murdering 10 people, that's not a good quality of life. There was a news report a couple of days ago where a prisoner constantly tried to kill himself with knives, etc, but the prison guards had to keep him alive.

I don't know what to think, but I don't agree with making someone blind just so that it evens out the blow. Why sink to that level? I also think there is a high degree of ambiguity throughout this whole process.

That's sort of the point! If we do the job that he's been tryna do himself then we'd be doing him a favour. Make him live a life of hell like he's put the victim(s) and their families through (of course this raises questions about how comfy our prisons are but I personally think it's been exaggerated). I do not believe in 'an eye for an eye' punishment tbh because it's just hypocritical, like me breaking your windows because you broke mine. It sounds so childish when you put it in a different context.