Meathead
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- Libertarian - Right
Actually Western law has deep roots in the Ten Commandments and thus part of the bible. The ingenuity of the Commandments is that they were said to be written by the hand of God. Before that, law had been pretty much arbitrary, with the big enchilada of the time dictating what it was. Obviously, having been written by God put an eventual end to that through Judaism and the spread of Christianity.Man's legal system isn't part of the Christian belief system.
However, I do not believe that mercy and the death penalty are mutually exclusive. Mercy obviously has to be selective, otherwise we would not have prisons or any sort of punitive measures at all. Mercy is feeding the starving as well as forgiving those who have trespassed upon us, but is by no means mandatory nor absolute.