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I just can't come up with anything.
Well, that's because you're not heterosexually challenged.
I just can't come up with anything.
Well, that's because you're not heterosexually challenged.
Yeah, still can't come up with anything.
4th Hour.
That's bad right?
Yeah, you should definitely see a professional, I know one by the name of Kandy that does good work. :mrgreen:
Gordons fully booked is he?
Yeah, by some Canadian bloke with an addiction to a political website.
Come on over cowboy....I think whipping serves a legitimate corrective purpose.
Oops, my bad, my bad. :3oops:The justice system should not be about revenge. There may be some hope of reform for this chap or a small (extremely unlikely) chance that he is innocent. If he can be reformed or is innocent, then what?
I honestly don't know.
On the one hand, what he did to her is heinous. The way women are treated in so much of the Mid East is appalling, and this is just one small example. I am surprised the court even ruled the way it did, against a man who harmed a woman, and in a sense I'm gratified they did so. My understanding is that Iranian women rarely get anything like justice from Iranian courts.
My knee jerk reaction is to say Yeah, he deserves it, except it needs to be a full bucket of acid just like he did to the woman. It might send a message to other men in the region that they can't get away with stuff like this towards women, as is all too often the case.
OTOH, as Viktyr points out, this doesn't heal anyone or compensate them for anything. All it does is make another person dependent on whatever charity might be available, whether it is gov't or private or family charity. It might be better to make him work the rest of his life and pay her everything he makes except a tiny amount that's just enough to keep him alive. She, however, seems to prefer the acid punishment.
Tashah makes a good point, that supporting this just reinforces the other barbaric punishments Iran often metes out to far less deserving victims... even to innocents, like the poor woman who killed a man in defense against rape, and was supposed to be beheaded (a year ago?). What if it were some place other than Iran? Some place not known for the horrific miscarriages of justice that Iran is known for. Would that make a difference?
He needs to be punished, severely... what he did was as appalling as it gets. It is difficult to decide what would really be appropriate, adequate, and reasonable.
What I do? I tried to choose my wording carefully, but I'm kinda tired too.
Isn't execution an option? It strikes me that the kind of nutcase that is going to attack women with Acid isn't going to be improved much by lesser forms of punishments.
That's what I would prefer, but he only blinded her; it's not like he slept with her or anything.
well, this is Iran. If he had raped her she would be getting executed.
To be expected from a young conservative.
Disfigured Woman Hails 'Eye-For-An-Eye' Blinding Of Attacker In Iran - Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty © 2011
I think the punishment assessed here is interesting, it truly is an "eye for an eye". Understanding, of course, that this would never happen in the US, do you think, given the crime, that this is an appropriate punishment? I'm not asking if this would be Constitutional in the US, clearly it would not. I'm more asking if this fits in with your personal perceptions of what a just or appropriate punishment would be. I'm torn myself, it sure seems barbaric but so was the attack on the lady and this would certainly put the attacker in the same situation as he put her in. So here's the poll question;
Should Man Who Attacked Woman with Acid Be Blinded by Acid as Punishment?