What is to sin? Why forgive ?
That is a good question, Raoul.
Most people see sin as defying God’s will, or his law. I look at it as something we do that hurts someone else, be it another person, God, or even ourselves.
Why forgive?
20 years ago I was going to marry a girl. I caught her cheating on me. I forgave her. After I caught her a second time, I couldn’t forgive her. The jealousy caused too much anger. For 20 years I carried around this anger. Last year I found her and forgave her. That anger disappeared and it felt as if a load had been lifted.
I think forgiveness helps not only those you forgive, but yourself as well. When we don’t forgive someone who wrongs us, we carry that anger like a heavy stone.
What happens to the culprit is less important (and by itself won't prevent others from doing it anyway) than the measures taken to avoid the next kidnapping. It's a matter of quick reaction, spreading the information through most existing media.
I don’t want to see the murder executed for revenge. I don’t want to even see him tortured to death, as some might like. I just want to be sure this person can never, ever do it again. To many child molesters are let out of prison. I could handle them getting life with no chance of ever getting out, but there is no guarantee in that. Executing them is the only way to guarantee they’ll never harm another child.
And if the threat of capital punishment can stop one person from molesting or killing one child, then it is worth it.
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- Why I support the Death Penalty
- Another Appropriate Person For Capital Punishment.
- It's hard not to support capital punishment, I certainly do;
- John Stuart Mill, the Founder of Western Liberalism, Supports the Death Penalty.
- The HZ Law
- A painless death is too good for them
- Could you accept
- Why I don't.
- I can not watch the video..or read the article whichever it is,
- It's easy to understand the upset and dismay.