tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1012277645322483593.post3191181719608808044..comments2024-03-27T23:37:20.556-07:00Comments on dhamma musings: Comfort Or Challenge IIShravasti Dhammikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06246408068143301108noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1012277645322483593.post-90705436762763663102011-03-13T11:19:30.828-07:002011-03-13T11:19:30.828-07:00Death penalty is not effective because it is not i...Death penalty is not effective because it is not in the hands of the suffering. Of course, an independent court should decide - but the suffering relatives should have the responsibility to then kill or not kill. Faced with those people, the death penalty could have a preventive effect indeed. In most cases I guess, people will be unable to finish it. In this way, it will not be done and those will learn about forgiveness. In the other cases, it will be cruel and full of hatred - and thus causing fear in potential damagers.<br />Now, is this idea compatible with Buddhism? Not with Theravada Buddhism, but with ideas of the icchantica, the non-believer who is not willing to change, as in the Mahayana Mahaparinirvana Sutra. This idea is ethically important because it is the only one that takes into account the danger of people who are not willing to change, like Bin Laden, Milosevic, Gaddafi and those dictators in Africa as well as serial killers etc. You have to kill certain people to stop their violence. It is so obvious that Buddhist ethics that rely on nothing else like ahimsa are an illusion.GiDohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00037285400565881820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1012277645322483593.post-91730489526876121152011-03-12T10:16:34.344-08:002011-03-12T10:16:34.344-08:00THe author says: "It is common knowledge that...THe author says: "It is common knowledge that the Pope at the time, Pius XII, did not behave well,"<br /><br />That's not correct. That idea is the slaunder that Hitler, Stalin, Ulbrigt, KGB startet spreading about Pius XII, and that idea is now held upright by thos who hate the church (for several reasons). FACT IS, that know one saved more jewish lives than Pius XII (860.000); no one protestet fiercer and more constantly against Nazism than Pius XII; no one helpt more victims of the war than Pius XII; no one worked harder, day and night to prevent the war, prevent violence, and rescued victims on all sides; no one wrote more letters, telegrams, visitted more importent men in behalve of the jews. HItler called Pius: "The Jewish Pop"; The Fascists called the Osservatore Romano "the voice of the jews" etc. etc.August Pietahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15707877039348818946noreply@blogger.com