“I’m just asking. I don’t think anybody, outside of being a Christian, can give me a sound reason why adultery should not be a capital offense.”
Because the gov has no business injecting itself into people’s personal lives. Besides, this is Iran. The only thing this guy is probably guilty of is trying to take his daughter to see a soccer match or something. Hideous dictatorships have a history of falsely charging and killing their own people.
“Besides, this is Iran. The only thing this guy is probably guilty of is trying to take his daughter to see a soccer match or something. Hideous dictatorships have a history of falsely charging and killing their own people.”
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I agree.
“Because the gov has no business injecting itself into people’s personal lives.”
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I think it depends on why they are injecting themselves into people’s personal lives. For example, rape or child molestation. The government should intrude into the rapist’s and pedophile’s life. Don’t you think?
You just don’t think the government should intrude into the adulterer’s life?
Nowadays, most people believe capital punishment should only be used for murderers. It seems Just, life for life, an adulterer hasn’t taken anyone’s life.
I’m just sick of the knee-jerk reactions that a stoning of adulterer or homosexual gets. No one explains on a rational let alone a reasonable basis on why it so repulsive.
All I can think of is that these types of sexual acts are either embraced or tolerated by their defenders or that capital punishment for these types of sexual acts appear to “not fit the crime” since no human life was taken in the performance of these acts and therefore, capital punishment is only to be used when human life is unjustly and deliberately taken by another.