Our standard of justice as shown in the scriptures and in most governments is based on an eye for an eye where the penalty has a relationship to the severity of the offence.
God does not go by this standard.
In his eyes, all sins are the same, in terms of the penalty God planned and will be punished eternally and in the same way.
Is God’s eternal punishment for all sinners, great or small, good justice?
If so, should we scrap an eye for an eye and have the same punishment for all crimes and sins?
Should we follow God’s lead instead of going against it in secular justice?
Is an eye for an eye good justice?
If you think so, please speculate on God’s overkill in terms of punishment.
In its raw and crude form, revange is justice; an eye for an eye.
But, we have been changed the meaning of justice over the time and now it is bent more towards curing than mere revange.
And, that is a welcome change.
I cannot help it if that simple assertion of mine is beyond your comprehending capabilities.
I sincerely feel sorry for you and also wish that you will be able to make it one day.
Justice has little if anything to do with “An eye for an eye” or revenge, which are inherently presumptuous.
Justness means “properly level” or “properly ordered”. It means compensating for whatever is out of harmony. And although revenge might compensate for the anger or hatred in a victim, it does not correct for the over-all disharmony. It tends to just fuel continued disharmony.
Justice is returning harmony to an acceptable state, not an easy thing to do. And simple minded, black and white axioms don’t cut it.
So what is the right level of punishment. Easy to sit on Ghandi’s shoulders my friend but would you give as a good standard to replace an eye for an eye.
P.S. Yours is actually a foolish quote as everyone knows that it is not eyes that are being talked about. Or didn’t you know that?
I think perhaps you did not.
If not even for even, how much should the victim give up to the perpetrator?
Reciprocity is a moral tenet, do unto others, for most religions and governments, — so I see it as bringing things into the balance you speak of. Not just getting revenge. Most people, I hope, want justice when harmed and not just revenge.
Is an eye for an eye overkill to you? If so how far do we extend mercy to the perpetrator and do we ignore the victim that seeks that equality in the law?
Justice= Just-us.