That’s the way that I took it, and I totally agree with him.
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TOO YOUNG TO JAIL?, or Short-Circuiting the Impulse to Let Everyone Off the Hook
- Thread starter Keith Martin
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Most of the contributors in this thread would benefit from reading Inside the Criminal Mind by S.E Samenow.
There is a serious lack of understanding how criminal justice works and how criminals think.
There is a serious lack of understanding how criminal justice works and how criminals think.
Of course not.
No but lets go there anyway.... was slavery allowed in the ancient economy and why? This is along the line of reasoning of What God regulates versus What God prohibits.
I just got home from two hours in a room with eight men, six with multiple live sentences. One of which pulled the trigger on at least ten people and ordered at least as many additional killings. No one stands guard over me other than the Lord's warriors. It was a good evening discussing what having a moral compass with God at its north means.
Sorry about your son Sir
Then perhaps the Community owes a debt to the victim, but then again, we do have community shelters, so SOME fo the victims DO get a form of retribution. It would be very difficult for an individual to ensure that his slave does the work, provided there actually is work that needs to be done, much less keep the slave from pulling an Onesimus and high tailing it out of there.
What the community owes everyone is justice, which would include any slavery that would be involved in full restitution.
The term Slavery is a "third rail" of impassioned discussion, the rail most likely to electrocute discourse however, lets go there- slavery is the ownership of an otherwise autonomous and independent person for reasons clearly defined. The winner of war like conflict where might has overcome another people grouping allows for the limited ownership of another person. Case in point is Concubinage. But as such even the concubine is protected to an extent. Another example is where the offender does not make appropriate recompence for offenses. What are other instances of the "community" being offended and payment is exacted through slavery? I thought naively that offenses were to an individual but community has the requirement to carry out punishment if the offended does not have the ability to enforce. In today's society the community(read that the judicial system) steals from the victim and puts repayment by perpetrator into their own coffers. I have witnessed this first hand by a friend's situation.
It has been 12 years but I am still affected by it.
Believe me I understand.