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I believe that morality is relative.
For example, if you kill an innocent person, it's morally wrong. They never did anything to you, and even if they did, they didn't like, kill your mother or something. However, if they DID kill your mother/a significant other/some random person, they deserve to die in my opinion UNLESS they're mentally unstable or they simply don't know better.
Same with thieves. This actually happens: the government/police "steals" the monetary value of the items stolen from the thief. It's like an eye-for-an-eye, tooth-for-a-tooth thing.

MoreGamesNow wrote:

I think the morality of an action is more about preventing further harm than punishment.  Justice is revenge of the majority, and, arguably, a necessary evil.  Without justice, there would be little incentive to follow laws that allow society to survive, but the intent of justice shouldn't be punishment, but rather to prevent crimes from happening in the future.  In a perfect world, a criminal is sent to a learn morality and emerges intent on never causing harm again... again: in a perfect world.

It can be argued that punishment isn't wrong, but yeah, I basically agree.

Last edited by Sunrise-Moon (2011-09-20 16:55:43)