RE 8.4
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- 8.4
- Why are laws needed?
- Everybody needs rules to follow
- Make sure we are treated fairly (e.g. workplace)
- Protect the weak from the strong
- Keeps things organised (in advanced societies like the UK)
- Link between law and justice
- if a law is unjust someone might feel it is ok to break it
- some may think if one law is unjust, that all are unjust
- if laws don't give justice people might take it into their own hands
- if the legal system is corrupt it could lead to a war
- Theories of punishment
- Retribution: punished in proportion to the crime
- Deterrence: using punishment as a threat to scare them into not doing it again
- Reform: educating criminals so they no longer turn to crime
- Protection: keeping criminals inside for so long that they are no longer a threat when released
- Christian attitudes to justice
- Bible says God is a God of justice
- Church teaches that Christians should behave justly
- Jesus said rich should share with poor
- Judgement Day
- Golden Rule
- Muslim attitudes to justice
- Quran says God is just
- Last Day is concerned with justice
- Khalifah=share sources equally and justly
- Muhammad worked for justice
- Islam teaches that all people should have equal rights
- Capital Punishment
- Non Religious FOR
- Will deter crimes like murder and terrorism
- Murderers are a threat and this removes the threat
- The only retribution for murder is death
- Non Religious AGAINST
- Could be wrong convicted
- Countries without death penalty for murder is death
- Executed terrorists become martyrs and inspire
- Christian AGAINST
- Jesus came to reform sinners
- Jesus banned 'an eye for an eye'
- Human life is sacred, only for God to take away
- 'turn the other cheek'
- Christian FOR
- Bible mentions it as a punishment
- C OF E doesn't condemn it
- Church used it for crimes
- Aquinas said peace in society was more important than reforming sinners
- Muslim FOR
- it's a punishment set by God in Quran
- Muhammad sentenced people to death
- Shari'ah law lays down crimes to be prescribed death
- Islamic prophecy teaches that punishments should be harsh to deter
- Muslim AGAINST
- Some believe it recommends capital punishment
- Shari'ah law allows victims families to be paid blood money
- In some cases the Shari'ah law may not be applied fairly
- Non Religious FOR
- Christian attitudes to drugs and alcohol
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