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06-26-2012, 05:38 PM
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What is more important: mercy or justice?
What is more important: mercy or justice?
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06-26-2012, 05:40 PM
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We have to go back, Kate!
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I dont believe you can have justice without mercy.
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06-26-2012, 05:47 PM
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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.
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06-26-2012, 05:49 PM
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Are you knock-kneed?
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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.
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06-26-2012, 05:54 PM
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Mercy for those that didn't fuck with me.
Justice for those who did.
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06-26-2012, 07:10 PM
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I think this line's mostly filler.
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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.
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06-26-2012, 05:55 PM
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We have to go back, Kate!
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*chuckles*
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06-26-2012, 05:56 PM
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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.
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06-26-2012, 05:58 PM
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We have to go back, Kate!
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06-26-2012, 05:59 PM
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I can hear my ears
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06-26-2012, 06:01 PM
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I can hear my ears
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you're not crap. I just couldn't get the image without that part to link properly.
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06-26-2012, 06:17 PM
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We have to go back, Kate!
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Maybe I am crap though? maybe I has you all fooled as to my not being crap...
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06-26-2012, 06:32 PM
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I can hear my ears
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wellllll.... inasmuchas we are all 40 billion year old carbon, as is crap.... then yes... you're crap.
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06-26-2012, 06:41 PM
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trying hard to be a better person
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I think the answer to the OP is a matter of perspective.
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06-26-2012, 06:53 PM
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erika
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why are you lj again jim
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