What is more important: mercy or justice?
 

What is more important: mercy or justice?

I dont believe you can have justice without mercy.

I agree. No more than you can have foreground without background or light without dark or any other coin with two sides.

I didn't specify that in my opening post, but I did think about it. I'm not asking pick one and discard the other, though some might suggest that.

Mercy will probably end giving more peace of mind than justice would...at least in the long run. But justice might end up preventing more wrong doing than mercy in the long run, too.

So I dont know.

Mercy for those that didn't fuck with me.
Justice for those who did.

*chuckles*

Justice, I think, in general terms. but life seldom gives you general decisions to make.

Maybe if there was a particular dwellar we could all judge, this would be easier to speak about.

Funny bastard :p

you're not crap. I just couldn't get the image without that part to link properly.

Maybe I am crap though? maybe I has you all fooled as to my not being crap...

wellllll.... inasmuchas we are all 40 billion year old carbon, as is crap.... then yes... you're crap.

I think the answer to the OP is a matter of perspective.

why are you lj again jim

Fuck yeah....I hadnt even noticed. Wtf Jim, what gives?

The effect of injustice is immediate and certain, while that of misplaced mercy is only potential.

In hindsight, you could determine that it would have been better to imprison or execute a particular person than to let them commit crimes they later committed, but if you think that imprisoning a potentially innocent person can be justified by the potential crimes they could commit if they were free, that same logic could be used to imprison anyone, if you could envision them committing a serious enough crime.

Oops!

spoken in to my phone using tapatalk

lol, I was fucking around being Lord God Quirk, and must have logged back in with the old lumberjim account. I hadn't noticed either....

:p

I'd say mercy.. because Justice can be very harsh and often times mistranslated.

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Holy shit, I think I might agree with Klyde...

I say mercy also because I think the peace one gets from forgiveness is greater than the peace from vindication (i.e. justice.)

Consider that carefully. It's been justice tempered with mercy, not mercy tempered with justice, for a long time. There may be good reason.

Pfft, Mercy and justice. Isn't all about vengeance and punishment? :rolleyes:

Only on a Saturday night, and only in the privacy of a members only club....


oh...yeah. Course.

If I have to pick one and only one, I'll choose mercy. I'd rather give another chance at redemption to someone who didn't deserve it than deny a chance to someone who did.

Justice, tempered with Mercy.

I'm thinking of my own children here. You need to teach them right from wrong. They need to know that actions have consequences. But you don't want to be a hard ass who breaks their spirit. So lay out the rules. Let them know what's expected. Be consistent. Dole out the reasonable and proportionate punishments. And every once in a while show some sympathy for their situation because they really are trying their best and sometimes make mistakes.

"But Dad, it's not fair"

You complete the dialog:

Nicely put.