Post by Nate on Sept 4, 2012 14:25:03 GMT -8
In the halfway light, the twilight of the day, Samson carefully carves a talking stick. A fallen limb is carefully shaved down to the bare wood, and glyphs are inscribed with his own claws.
The death penalty cannot be enacted to reform the criminal, it is to protect the community. It is a retroactive self-defense, a justifiable murder to protect the whole. After all, if a member of the group has caused the cessation of another, what else can prevent it from occurring again? So the tribe removes the threat, as an unit, in the pursuit of continuing their existence.
The question must be asked here, at this point, who is the true victim? There is no appeal to this judgement, no chance for redemption. If the perpetrator of the crime is truly unrepentant, then this is the correct action that must be taken. However, this is the final, by definition, option.
Samson reviews his words in the wrist-thick branch, and shrugs as he tosses it back into the forest.
The death penalty cannot be enacted to reform the criminal, it is to protect the community. It is a retroactive self-defense, a justifiable murder to protect the whole. After all, if a member of the group has caused the cessation of another, what else can prevent it from occurring again? So the tribe removes the threat, as an unit, in the pursuit of continuing their existence.
The question must be asked here, at this point, who is the true victim? There is no appeal to this judgement, no chance for redemption. If the perpetrator of the crime is truly unrepentant, then this is the correct action that must be taken. However, this is the final, by definition, option.
Samson reviews his words in the wrist-thick branch, and shrugs as he tosses it back into the forest.