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Originally Posted by blindinglight how do you arrive that we are at an inpermanent state of time? if you think about it, life always points to eternity.. before this there was that, before that there was the other and before that etc...
Would a good judge be loving if He did not punish the murderers and rapists etc? |
By impermanent, I mean our lives here on Earth. Death ends that. According to your beliefs, the afterlife, whereever you end up, is eternal. So a comparatively short stay in this life determines the permanent placement of your soul afterwards. Doesn't seem terribly fair to me.
A good judge does not have to be loving, he has to be just...the punishment must fit the crime, and take into consideration the victims as well as the criminal.
A loving parent who punishes a child for something they do allows them to learn from their mistake; they don't want their child to suffer punishment forever, simply long enough to learn the lesson that there are consequences for wrong actions.