[QUOTE="Trinners"]
[QUOTE="elblanquito_81"]That second one will get them stoned, not arrested. I see what you're trying to say though. I don't support that regime, I do think they are an extremely oppressive country, but I really feel no sympathy for this man. Considering what he did, how he left a child to die in the desert like an animal after raping him, I don't find anything wrong with the sentence. It's shocking, yes, but nothing I will shed a tear over.
elblanquito_81
It's not about sympathy
Civilized justice systems aren't supposed to exact vengeance on a criminal so they get what they "deserve".
It is extremely hypocritical to condemn a certain act as a crime while performing that same act on the criminal. (ie. capital punishment for murderers).
It achieves absoloutely nothing positive for society and only serves to make the justice system look weak considering that system is supposed to represent a higher standard of civility.
Whoever said Saudi Arabia had a civilized justice system?? I did say they are an oppressive regime didn't I??We can't take what we feel is morally right in our own countries and try to apply it somewhere else. It's a totally different culture over there.
I apologize if my post made you feel as if it were an attack against you but I assure you it is not.
I completely agree that we do not have the right to impose morals on other nations but it was just a critique on SA's justice system and perhaps other systems that are similar in principle such as death penalties in developed countries.
My post was more of trying to explain how justice systems are supposed to work and I am baffled how other people in this thread can support such acts. Since it completely defeats the purpose of the judicial system. Morality doesn't even come into play here.
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