An eye for an eye - Iran courts rule to blind man

[p4radox]

Wow, this forum genuinely is full of barbaric idiots. Seriously, you absolutely sicken me.

It should not be the state's position to dish out "eye for an eye" punishments. The justice system you all advocate is nothing short of medieval.

And yes, for the record I do think it would make the punisher just as sick and twisted as the idiot who disfigured his wife in the first place.

 

[deuse]

Deserved tbh.

Edit: Would've probably been given a few hours community service had it happened in this country.

 

[khemist]

If she misses and blinds both his eyes can he splash her good eye back so they are even ? ...Oh i read one eye

 

[malef!c]

Wow, this forum genuinely is full of barbaric idiots. Seriously, you absolutely sicken me.

It should not be the state's position to dish out "eye for an eye" punishments. The justice system you all advocate is nothing short of medieval.

And yes, for the record I do think it would make the punisher just as sick and twisted as the idiot who disfigured his wife in the first place.

I think I am on the sicko barbaric idiot side of the line, so perhaps you can explain what you would do if you were in charge. This isn't a dig just want to know what you are thinking.

Cheers.

 

[Spyhop]

Wow, this forum genuinely is full of barbaric idiots. Seriously, you absolutely sicken me.

I bet it's only a dense minority who genuinely mean it though. Like with Jeremy-Clarkson-for-PM macho-macho-man banter.

 

[etom]

Blind people can feed themselves, they aren't retarded. Plus crap lives? I can't help but think this thread is just coming off a lot more offensive to blind people than it is Iranian society.

good job they can't read

 

[Angilion]

I wonder if he is truly sorry for what he'd done. That would be the first thing to ascertain before deciding on what punishment. I don't what I'd do but that, somehow, doesn't seem right to me. The ones that carry it out - they will go through the same self made torture that a soldier does when he commits atrocities. Like when some of the Russian soldiers come back from the Chechen war front line and they can't escape the nightmares. Fact.

It is not a fact, because the people who torture, mutilate and kill people are the people who like doing it. That's why they want the job. They're more likely to have happy memories about their victims screaming and pleading than to have nightmares.

 

[Reginald]

Let's not forget that under their law people still have limbs chopped off or are decapitated. Women who have been raped are stoned to death because under their law she needs four or five male witnesses to testify on her behalf that she was raped for any form of justice on her behalf.

If you think their law is good, you're a ******* moron.

Indeed some parts of shariah law are archaic and totally wrong. However, you have to admit that the idea of seriously harsh punishments would be likely to put idiots off crimes. I definitely dont agree with all of shariah law but I also dont agree with the pathetic laws in this country. They are far too lax. Furthermore, when real crimes are commited the law is useless!!! Examples:
- Many stories in news about peoples' houses being broken into then they confront the attacker and maybe smack them round the head with a frying pan and the owner of the house gets in trouble!! Undue force or something?? Id scream like a little girl and smash someones face in with a meat mallet and claim they had a knife if I found them lurking round my house in the dark. *be warned!*
- My friends car got broken into last week.. he found the rock they threw through the window.. his new amp and speakers taken.. they moved the sub but did not take it..probably because it weighs a lot.. yet when he told the police all of this they said..yeah sorry nothing we can do...

Which brings me back to being stopped smoking on a station platform a couple of months ago - you might remember the thread!! What the **** do we pay our taxes for?? A pathetic law "enforcement" system which persecutes the so called good members of society and lets petty criminals go free and gives pathetic charges to those who commit serious crimes??

The thought of blinding someone is awful.. but this woman now has to live BLIND for the rest of her life because of this idiot. Thousands of people die every year in the army or from starvation.. Good people! Yet some people on here disagree with blinding this good for nothing criminal moron??
Two wrongs may not make a right, but harsher laws, disincentives and making an example of this fool might do society some good.

 

[IamMed]

Here's a photo of her :

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Wo..._Into_Spurned_Mans_Eyes_For_Disfiguring_Woman

Premeditated attack on someone with acid to the face doesn't strike me as the type of person who will feel sorry for what they did with a couple hours community service.

Generally I wouldn't agree with an eye for an eye in most cases but for someone todo that to another human being just because they weren't attracted to them I say he deserves everything coming to him.

She's mentally and physically scarred for the rest of her life because of the attack, he's even said after seeing what he has done that he has no regrets!

 

[Atrox Moris]

Yeah, because the harsh justice dished out by Iranian courts really deters people from commiting acts of crime. Just like the death penalty in America stops all those violent crimes from occuring there.

 

[Amnesia]

its better than british justice

 

[Xon]

Wow, this forum genuinely is full of barbaric idiots. Seriously, you absolutely sicken me.

It should not be the state's position to dish out "eye for an eye" punishments. The justice system you all advocate is nothing short of medieval.

And yes, for the record I do think it would make the punisher just as sick and twisted as the idiot who disfigured his wife in the first place.

Eye for an eye in these situations is the best possible system. I don't agree with the rest of their laws but this one is quite good. If anything it servers as a real deterrent! I don't agree with the chopping of limbs in the case of theft for example; I'd rather leave the guy homeless in that case.

 

[RDM]

I don't agree with the rest of their laws but this one is quite good. If anything it servers as a real deterrent! I don't agree with the chopping of limbs in the case of theft for example; I'd rather leave the guy homeless in that case.

Wouldn't chopping someones hand off also serve as a deterrent?

Not that the deterrent factor really seems to work as evidenced by the US murder rate.

 

[Xon]

Wouldn't chopping someones hand off also serve as a deterrent?

Not that the deterrent factor really seems to work as evidenced by the US murder rate.

No because if he stole from you its not exactly eye for an eye then is it? If I was blinded by acid I'd wish the guy who did it the same. If someone stole my tv I wouldn't want to cut his arms off!

 

[RDM]

No because if he stole from you its not exactly eye for an eye then is it? If I was blinded by acid I'd wish the guy who did it the same. If someone stole my tv I wouldn't want to cut his arms off!

So you aren't actually interested in deterrent or justice you are just interested in revenge? Fair enough, I however would prefer a justice system not a revenge system.

 

[Richdog]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7754756.stm



Wow, just wow.

Iwonder who gets the job to put the acid in his eyes?

As much as I think Iran is a stupidly ruin country, I can't help but feel that this IS justice. Sod taking the "moral high groung omg u barbarians" he blinded the woman with acid so should suffer the same fate. "Do unto others..."

A rare example of Iranian justice seeming fair.

 

[Things change I've changed]

It's wrong, moral high ground or not we can't lower ourselves to their level, we have to be nobler than that, how can we improve society when children are brought up to believe that we a justified in harming others but at the same time condemn people for doing the same act, eye for an eye is a barbaric system that shouldn't even be considered in today's society.

 

[Richdog]

Agreed, in modern society (ie: here or in the west) it simply would not happen. But nonetheless, something about it feels right.

 

[Tombo]

Got to love the irony of these threads.

 

[p4radox]

I think I am on the sicko barbaric idiot side of the line, so perhaps you can explain what you would do if you were in charge. This isn't a dig just want to know what you are thinking.

Cheers.

Jail, for the rest of his life.

It's wrong, moral high ground or not we can't lower ourselves to their level, we have to be nobler than that, how can we improve society when children are brought up to believe that we a justified in harming others but at the same time condemn people for doing the same act, eye for an eye is a barbaric system that shouldn't even be considered in today's society.

Exactly. We can hardly claim to be a more developed country when half the population seemingly advocate the horrendous practices from the "less developed" countries.