Shall the punishment be proportionate to the suffering of the victim?
Shall it be proportionate to socially predetermined code of criminal action?
Should remorse come in to consideration at all?
How to measure the nature and influence of the crime?
Was it a crime against an individual or against society?
How to measure suffering? Remorse? Fear?
Is punishment retributive or a deterrent?
How to measure the effect or scope of the punishment?
What is legal in one society is not in another. Is there a universal principle which may be applied?
Can every society do what is right in their own eyes?
"Sanity is only that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought."
Shall it be proportionate to socially predetermined code of criminal action?
Should remorse come in to consideration at all?
How to measure the nature and influence of the crime?
Was it a crime against an individual or against society?
How to measure suffering? Remorse? Fear?
Is punishment retributive or a deterrent?
How to measure the effect or scope of the punishment?
What is legal in one society is not in another. Is there a universal principle which may be applied?
Can every society do what is right in their own eyes?
"Sanity is only that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought."
Erich Fromm
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