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Step by step walk the thousand mile road |
As a nine-year old living in Africa in the late 60s, one of my father's Liberian colleagues took me, along with his two sons (one eight, one nine) to see Sharia justice served on a thief. The thief was brought to the square, his crime and sentence read out, then he was pinned down and a machete used to amputate his left hand. No anesthesia, but they did apply a crude tourniquet beforehand. Hell of an object lesson. Nice is overrated "It's every freedom-loving individual's duty to lie to the government." Airsoftguy, June 29, 2018 | |||
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Political Cynic |
and after that display, you weren't likely to steal anything | |||
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Fire begets Fire |
Or you learn not to steal in shithole Liberia … or better yet, not get caught in said shithole! "Pacifism is a shifty doctrine under which a man accepts the benefits of the social group without being willing to pay - and claims a halo for his dishonesty." ~Robert A. Heinlein | |||
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Casuistic Thinker and Daoist |
It’s because the left out factor is the time frame involved. Because of our system and the right to appeal, the fear of the death penalty is more abstract. Denial works it’s way into the equation, as in: “It won’t ever happen to me” There is very little crime in Japan because of the known inevitability of punishment…because almost all criminals are caught and convicted. If we caught most criminals in this country, far fewer would commit crimes No, Daoism isn't a religion | |||
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Fire begets Fire |
Well to be completely honest, Japanese prosecutors only prosecute cases that they absolutely can win. That leads to the 99% conviction rate. That’s very different than saying they convict all criminals. "Pacifism is a shifty doctrine under which a man accepts the benefits of the social group without being willing to pay - and claims a halo for his dishonesty." ~Robert A. Heinlein | |||
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