Originally posted by: Moonbeam
Originally posted by: bamacre
I think Moonbeam is having a little fun with you guys, no?
Well there is a certain pleasure in asking people to think.
For example, and as was already touched on by RichardE, in SA they cut off your hand for theft and this fact is such a known certainty they almost never have to cut off anybodies hand. These laws were created at a time when state run prisons weren't even dreamed of yet. So in Islamic civilization the terrible evil of theft is dealt with severely and this creates a society that is practically theft free. We who issue slaps on the wrist, however, suffer from massively more theft. To steal is to admit that you are too worthless to earn a living on your own, an admission that you have to take from others to get by. So every thief knows that he is really a worthless piece of sh!t, even though he won't let this fact become conscious. So, in effect, because we do not fight the monster the monster begins to eat us alive, both the thief and the robbed are assaulted. Isn't what the Saudis do a form of 'tough love' that they almost never have to act out?