Love me or else (Part Two) (Where is it now?)

by romansh , Saturday, December 22, 2012, 00:14 (4137 days ago) @ Balance_Maintained

The difference between you and I on this note is where the blame is assigned. Do you blame the judge for punishing the criminals, or do you blame the criminals for forcing the judge to judge them at all by committing crimes? Humanity has not yet learned to accept it's own culpability. -I must admit when I read this I am disheartened.
If by blame you mean a rainstorm is caused by the sun beating down on some ocean somewhere, then fair enough.-Now I might hold a criminal responsible is different from the criminal being responsible (unless we hold the rain cloud responsible for the rainstorm).-When we punish criminals there might be several reasons
1) to protect society
2) to provide a deterrent for future criminal activities
3) to educate the criminal-Unfortunately society seems preoccupied with giving judgement and handing out vengeance. Sounds positively Biblical. Oh wait ...