Some questions for you to think about:
In the modern world what is more important when dealing with wrong-doing (be it serious crime, badly behaved children, or whatever)... making the wrong-doer suffer, recompensing the victim, rehabilitating the miscreant, scaring other people off from committing the same crime, or something else again?
I feel that this depends on the person and the crime. In society today, I feel that the victim is forgotten. Some kind of punishment is dealt but this does not always help the victim at all. Badly behaving children, usually having them applogize and do something nice or help another to make up for what they did can be a lesson on how they should behave. With children it's all about teaching them what is appropriate, not teaching them violent inapppropriate reactions.
I do believe that crimes of theft and such should be recompensed. The victim should be paid back in some way. Actually harming another should be a combination of the two... recomense... pay back the person by doing something fo them, or for someone else. But for violent crimes i feel there should also be punishment or detainment. Many will re-offend otherwise. This needs to be a case by case basis.
The troscad is an example of ancient people taking responsibility for making justice happen within their own communities. What methods are available to you for bringing some miscreant (wether they have broken the law, or just offended your moral sensibilities) to justice?
Protesting is very popular now as it was in the 60's and 70's. Sit in's, the Occupy trend right now, is a big way to get people to do what they want. I do not think that things on the large scale of Occupy the Ports or Wallstreet really has much effect but smaller scale protests such as petitioning a prison sentence or making a specific government official leave office can be very effective.
Boycotting is another way to make people change their ideals...
Hinduism has the idea of karma, and Christianity the idea of Heaven and Hell. Do you feel that the Gods take any part in the administration of justice (punishing the wicked, rewarding the good etc)? If human justice fails, and the innocent are wrongly punished or the dishonourable get away with things, is there any other force that can put right what has gone wrong?
I believe whole heartedly in Karma or the three fold law, however you want to look at it. What goes around, comes around. What you send out, comes back to you three fold. If you are good, good will come, if now, bad comes. This, while does not relieve the victims, is always a definite. They will eventualy get theirs. I would not say this is punishment dealth directly by the God's but is definitely indirect.
Practical exercise:
Take part in a campaign for justice. This could be something like working for Amnesty as a letter-writer, or it could be going on a protest march for some cause you believe in, or trying to put right some injustice which you have either suffered or caused. The amount of time you devote tot his is entirely up to you.
If you have the opportunity, sit in the public gallery during a trial (doesn’t matter what for) as a means of seeing how the justice system in your country works. In the same vein, consider becoming a prison visitor in order to learn about that aspect of justice.
In the modern world what is more important when dealing with wrong-doing (be it serious crime, badly behaved children, or whatever)... making the wrong-doer suffer, recompensing the victim, rehabilitating the miscreant, scaring other people off from committing the same crime, or something else again?
I feel that this depends on the person and the crime. In society today, I feel that the victim is forgotten. Some kind of punishment is dealt but this does not always help the victim at all. Badly behaving children, usually having them applogize and do something nice or help another to make up for what they did can be a lesson on how they should behave. With children it's all about teaching them what is appropriate, not teaching them violent inapppropriate reactions.
I do believe that crimes of theft and such should be recompensed. The victim should be paid back in some way. Actually harming another should be a combination of the two... recomense... pay back the person by doing something fo them, or for someone else. But for violent crimes i feel there should also be punishment or detainment. Many will re-offend otherwise. This needs to be a case by case basis.
The troscad is an example of ancient people taking responsibility for making justice happen within their own communities. What methods are available to you for bringing some miscreant (wether they have broken the law, or just offended your moral sensibilities) to justice?
Protesting is very popular now as it was in the 60's and 70's. Sit in's, the Occupy trend right now, is a big way to get people to do what they want. I do not think that things on the large scale of Occupy the Ports or Wallstreet really has much effect but smaller scale protests such as petitioning a prison sentence or making a specific government official leave office can be very effective.
Boycotting is another way to make people change their ideals...
Hinduism has the idea of karma, and Christianity the idea of Heaven and Hell. Do you feel that the Gods take any part in the administration of justice (punishing the wicked, rewarding the good etc)? If human justice fails, and the innocent are wrongly punished or the dishonourable get away with things, is there any other force that can put right what has gone wrong?
I believe whole heartedly in Karma or the three fold law, however you want to look at it. What goes around, comes around. What you send out, comes back to you three fold. If you are good, good will come, if now, bad comes. This, while does not relieve the victims, is always a definite. They will eventualy get theirs. I would not say this is punishment dealth directly by the God's but is definitely indirect.
Practical exercise:
Take part in a campaign for justice. This could be something like working for Amnesty as a letter-writer, or it could be going on a protest march for some cause you believe in, or trying to put right some injustice which you have either suffered or caused. The amount of time you devote tot his is entirely up to you.
If you have the opportunity, sit in the public gallery during a trial (doesn’t matter what for) as a means of seeing how the justice system in your country works. In the same vein, consider becoming a prison visitor in order to learn about that aspect of justice.
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