I think this would be a good topic to discuss with people. We constantly read stories and news articles about how people do such cruel things to other humans (and sometimes animals, which in this case triggered me making this thread) and then aren't punished properly in the eyes of many. The story I'm referring to is the lady that taped her boyfriend's Shiba Inu upside down to a refrigerator because her boyfriend wouldn't get rid of it. All the lady received was a $12,500 bail fee which isn't enough because it won't teach her a lesson. Does it sound more fair to give her the same punishment that she gave to the dog?

Constantly we see people murdering others and what do they tend to get? A simple monetary figure that will tell society that they have murdered someone but they paid the bill to murder someone so it's okay. Does that sound just to you?

I'm now debating what kinds of effects on crime levels an "eye for an eye" punishment system would have on society. If someone were to murder a person, why don't they lost their life in turn? If someone hits someone robs a bank, who's to say they should keep any of the things they have worked hard to form in life?

Now, don't get me wrong, I can see the flaws in a system like this. For example if somebody hits someone with a car (unintentionally) I don't feel that they deserve to be hit by a car in return as that doesn't make sense. But I'm sure there would be a way to simulate something of a similar or equal damage value.

What do you guys think about this?

I think you summed it all up. Someone who does something stupid deserves to be equally punished. If its unintentional, then that changes the story.

Well, what could we do to make a concrete way of deciding unintentional repercussions?

if someone rapes another one, what would it be in return?

I once read a story about a man from India who proposed to a woman; she said no and he threw acid in her face, leaving her completely blind and with a malformed face.

It was legally decided that the woman could drop acid in the guy's eyes in return. The woman's mom was the one who was gonna do it, since the chick couldn't see anything.

Now, is this fair? I think it is.

But I guess it all depends on where the legal system stands, philosophically speaking. If it considers itself a restauratory system, that is, a system whose objective is to "change" criminals, to turn them into something useful for society, these type of punishments shouldn't exist, and there shouuldn't even be death penalties.

But, if it is a punitary system, with the objective of just punishing and showing others what could happen to them if they did something that the system considers wrong, then these types of thing are completely admittable.

^ Wow. Wtf. That is messed up; throwing acid in someone's eyes.

Glad he got what he deserved though.

That's interesting, I never thought about that........

If you are talking about revenge, that's not the answer.

I don't believe in executing people. That's the easy way out. How about just throwing them in jail for a really long time and they get so bored they kill themself.

Now that's justice. They regret what they've done so badly they take their own life. Us killing people is just revenge...and they probably would never have understood what they did wrong.