I have heard a lot of people talking about what to do with someone that has killed somebody you loved.
A lot of people seem to think that if you take a life then yours should be taken as well. If someone killed your child, you should be able to kill them. This scenario doesn't work, and here is why.
If you killed someone after they killed someone you love wouldn't you then be the next victim? The person you killed may have had someone that loved them, so in turn they would get to kill you. This cycle would continue until only one person remained on the planet. (The last killer)
Then there is the moral implications, taking a life is no easy task, and after it's done it changes a person mentally. When you get to kill a person who has killed someone you love, wouldn't you drop to their level and become what you wanted to kill and rid the world of in the first place? You might become mentally unstable yourself, and either the guilt of the event or the enjoyment would haunt you for the rest of your life, forever changing who you were before.
Even if you weren't the one who killed someone, but instead you were the deciding factor in the death of another, if you told someone else to do it, or you chose the electric chair for someone instead of life in prison. I believe that would change you as well, but probably not as much as if you did the actual deed yourself.
I think the need for revenge should be sated, and a punishment dealt to the perpetrator. Our prisons are not the answer as they are too slack in the punishment department.(in my opinion.)
We need the rock quarries and dull pickaxes and hard labor brought back for punishment, not what we have now.
What do you think? would we be better if the punishment was.....
An eye for an eye
Scott Goerz
