Timeline for obligation to render justice?
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| Feb 29, 2016 at 8:36 | comment | added | Баян Купи-ка | well i totally understand the purpose and the motives but i don't think the system is morally sound, after all it wasn't designed to be, was it? that's why i opine for abstention from rendering justice for an individual, obviously the system will never turn dhammic therefore there will always be people willing to take upon themselves this moral burden, but even if it became dhammic someone probably would still have to sacrifice their kamma and do that... if i was summoned to be on a jury i'd decline, i hope it's not illegal, but hey, one is allowed to avoid military service so why not jury | |
| Feb 29, 2016 at 1:36 | comment | added | ivo Welch | (1) what about dis-incentives for future crimes? (2) what if you are designated to be on a jury? | |
| Feb 28, 2016 at 21:10 | comment | added | Баян Купи-ка | the concept of justice in the form of isolation from society has two intrinsic flaws in its moral aspect: A) it is vindictive because necessarily is done after the fact when the victim doesn't require immediate protection and B) it recognizes possibility of retribution for uncommitted crime(s) under the guise of protection of society from anticipated conjecturable future crimes of the wrongdoer | |
| Feb 28, 2016 at 20:52 | comment | added | Баян Купи-ка | the original question was about rendering justice, but this and 'helping to protect other sentient beings' are not quite one and the same... the actual protection or rescue may only occur at the moment of crime, not so much after the fact... as far as kammic retribution/reward is concerned, it indeed IS determined (provided it's believed in), if a deed has moral significance the kamma principle is activated... since the question was about 'Buddhist advice' it's only natural that kamma has a role to play... indeed, life is suffering | |
| Feb 28, 2016 at 20:40 | history | edited | Баян Купи-ка | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 28, 2016 at 17:07 | comment | added | ivo Welch | this makes no sense to me. this is not about revenge---it's about justice. one does not have to believe in reincarnation, so khamma won't necessarily take care of it anyway. (if it did, is everything determined?) and evidently often it does not. and evidently there is evil in the world, in degrees, from hitler to shoplifters. does one have no obligation to help protect other sentient being (a) from them, and (b) from such behavior in the future (which requires some justice)? | |
| Feb 28, 2016 at 9:48 | history | answered | Баян Купи-ка | CC BY-SA 3.0 |