Comments on: Tuesday Newsday – Roman Polanski Arrested

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 16:25:00 +0000

I see. Your ultimate goal is that the crime doesn’t happen again, so you are more for rehabilitation than punishment. I can get on board with that.

By: Tpos

Tpos — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 17:35:00 +0000

Hmm I take what I said back, since it doesn’t make sense. As I have mentioned in Islam if someone is forgiven then they are let off the hook – and as you have said the victim doesn’t want him to be ‘punished’ so he should be left alone.

But what I said about him being punished despite being forgiven wasn’t so he would be an example but because he would be kept away from others so wouldn’t be able to commit the crime again. But since it’s not a great deterrent anyway, I guess there’d be no point in that either (if I hadn’t gone back on my word)

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 04:00:00 +0000

There are some interesting debate regarding the effects of deterrent punishments out there. For the most part, they don’t do an effective job of lowering rates of crime, except when minor offenses are punished severely. In those cases, crime is lowered substantially. But with “crimes of passion”, deterrent seems to go right out the window.

The fascinating aspect of this case is that the “victim” doesn’t seek any punishment for Polanski. To me, this means that she believes that he has already been punished enough for his crimes, that he didn’t commit the crimes in the first place, or that she is just wanting it to all go away and is doing what she can to make that happen.

In my view, we shouldn’t punish a single person to make an example of them for the sake of others. If rehabilitation is possible, it should be pursued with vigor.

By: Tpos

Tpos — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 12:34:00 +0000

From a religious perspective, Islam gives the option for both justice and forgiveness but forgiveness is given a higher ‘status’. Also it’s hard to take true justice and it can very easily turn into revenge, which is wrong. So forgiveness is the recommended action in such cases. And divine justice will be given one day.

A person who has committed a sin against another will not be forgiven by God until the wronged person has forgiven the perpetrator.

By: Tpos

Tpos — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 12:29:00 +0000

The brain is pretty cool!

I don’t think punishment is always a good deterrent but I’m not sure what else could be done with such people :S Unless you want to do some brain surgery on them (joke)

haha, well I’m still an innocent little girl who thinks ‘yuck!’ at the thought of sex :$I don’t think the thought of punishment would stop anyone committing the act as their desire is obviously too strong to worry about that. They’ve turned animalistic.

I’ve just gone against what I said about punishment having some effect. Well it might influence them if they already have gone through it. But, yeah, if you turn animalistic there’s little to stop you doing such things, imo.

Yes, the value of human life, should have a big impact on a person who considers such a thing.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 22:51:00 +0000

It is interesting that your mind tends to gravitate and “notice” things that you have been pondering lately. There’s a part of your brain known as the “reticular activating system” that regulates this for us. It’s kind of cool to learn about.

Do you think that punishment is a good form of deterrent? Why is it that you don’t go around raping/murdering people? Is it because of the punishment that you would receive? Or because of the way that you value human life and human choice?

By: Tpos

Tpos — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 22:04:00 +0000

It’s weird how when you learn something new, you then start to come across it everywhere!
I learnt about Charlie Manson just this week and I have to write a report on him, his “family” and the murders for homework!

And Polanski directed ‘the pianist’?! Wow! That was a great film!

Famous people seem to get quite messed up though…

I think, despite the girl/woman forgiving him, he should be punished to ensure he doesn’t do it to anyone else. Well he could still do it again but you know he just deserves the punishment and it might stop him reoffending.

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